anyone else have the peasure of dealing with this venerable organisation?
they've not received the 3 direct debit mandate's I've sent in the last 6 months(2 sent by recorded delivery) so now have enlisted a debt collection firm who have the power to take my driving licence off me,take the money out of me wages,sent me to jail or do the usual bailiff things.this despite me phoning fortnightly to say I'd like to pay the moneys in the bank come and get it!
I'm off to the shops to get a superman suit and you'll see me on the news strapped to the tamar bridge.

good
you should be able to have by the nuts

i will report back later - busy

I've recently enlisted them to help me pay for my youngun.

According to the calculator thingy on there website, i was paying about £100 more than I should.

Hope they don't mess me up like you though.

I was having the same problem dawlish, it got sorted out in the end like as i kept every single receipt from every single payment i made.I don't know if it was a case of them trying it on or not, who knows?....the thought did cross my mind, but there was no way i was going to back down and it took alot of phone calls to Falkirk and arguing to get it sorted.

It doesn't matter now anyway because i'm a nil-assessment due to fact i've got four kids to my present partner although i do still keep getting letters saying i owe them 31p in arrears and it's my choice wether i pay it or not

I had the same problem a few years back, ended up getting a solicitor friend to send them a love letter, seemed to focus their minds & everything got sorted

havnt had the pleasure of dealing with them......yet.....just finished filling out a financial disclosure....and i assume if the solicitors cant agree ......then i guess il be dealing with them

I agree with Chip, just do it directly. Half the time the CSA lose the money in their system anyway. The whole CSA thing was good in theory but in practice they had targets to hit so they aimed for the easiest.

It's always best to keep the relationship with your ex relatively sweet. Mind you the CSA website reckons I should be paying £86 a week. At that rate she certainly doesn't want to fall out with me she'd be well out of pocket. But again, as Chip says, their your kids and for my part supporting them would come before paying the mortgage.

Oh I could write a book on this subject.They are a complete waste of telephone lines!

You aren't kidding.

lets make love and listen to death from above

brilliant!

I dealt with them in reverse!! I was a single parent after my daughter had lived with her Mother until she was 14, then she came to live with me. Everyone was more concerned that I'd paid every penny right up to the day she changed over than getting any money for my daughter. Guess how much the CSA got for me?? Yep, nowt.

One year on, I got taken to court for non-payment as the records hadn't been brought up to date. I asked them to impose a reverse order with me as plaintiff and her mother as defendant. They just smirked at me.

Might have been something to do with me going along in the beginning and saying I didn't know who the mother was............ I complained to my MP and I got a personal letter from Ross Hepplewhite the Chief Executive of the CSA. Very nice, did I get any cash?? Did I ferk.

Mr Dawlish, I'll be right beside you dressed as Wonderwoman, it's my favourite soapbox subject. The tales I could tell you.

I worked for the CSA once.

It was funny as fook.

doing it directly is not an option,this all dates back 12 years and when I did pay direct for a while she claimed benefits ,then when they threatened to do her for it she asked me to tell them a few white lies.what a moral dilema that was!! obviously I kept quiet and then the CSA
steamed in and she filled her boots.c'est la vie.
paying the csa is not the same as paying for my kids.they get everything they need from me separatley but the csa don't recognise putting food on the table and clothes on their backs as legitimate expenses.

in that case then
try to follow the route of my pm
and if you have money that they should have took and it gets wiped
open bank accts for the kids with it so the 'ex' cant have it

I've tried the whole cash to the mam thing since before she was born, it works at times n others it doesn't.

We've never been able to agree on a set amount to pay, she wants about £200 a month off me, and i only bloody earn about 4 times that amount, and live on my own with a mound of bills to pay.

And I see my daughter 1 night during the week and a full weekend, so I'm spending money on her whilst I have her and to travel to the other end of the town to get her.

I politely asked for it to be reduced as I had no money at all, the 19 chav just kicked off n winged cos I'd had one night out since April.

CSA it is then...... No other way I guess.

no surrender to the CSA!!!

Everyone in the office liked that as well.