Wardy
NSC's Benefits Guru
Anyone else here had any bad or good for that matter experance of the Child Support Agency?
I have been in talks with them for a few months over what I owe or do not owe. Before any starts saying I should pay what they say ect here is a bit of background.
My ex and I broke up in last January. She was seeing someone else and told me that it was over. We had a son together and also a daughter from her previous relationship, who I treated and still do treat as if she was my own. She was only 3 months old when we got together so as never known anyone else but me as daddy.
When we broke up I agreed that I would pay maintenance for both children and we agreed to not get the CSA involved. This was working fine up until August when she decided that she wanted to get the CSA involved.
Firstly they would not let me pay for my daughter because I was not her biological father and had never adopted her. In the end i had to agree to this. But tp then really piss me off the said that I would have to pay for the time between January and August. I pointed out that I had been paying for this period and in fact had been paying more then they know said I had to pay. They asked for proof and because I had been making the payments in cash and could not prove that I had made them, they refuse to accept that I had paid the money.
So now just before Christmas I have a bill for 30 weeks of maintenace that they want paid. The ex is refusing to tell them that I had been paying for the period so I am now completly f***ed.
I have been in talks with them for a few months over what I owe or do not owe. Before any starts saying I should pay what they say ect here is a bit of background.
My ex and I broke up in last January. She was seeing someone else and told me that it was over. We had a son together and also a daughter from her previous relationship, who I treated and still do treat as if she was my own. She was only 3 months old when we got together so as never known anyone else but me as daddy.
When we broke up I agreed that I would pay maintenance for both children and we agreed to not get the CSA involved. This was working fine up until August when she decided that she wanted to get the CSA involved.
Firstly they would not let me pay for my daughter because I was not her biological father and had never adopted her. In the end i had to agree to this. But tp then really piss me off the said that I would have to pay for the time between January and August. I pointed out that I had been paying for this period and in fact had been paying more then they know said I had to pay. They asked for proof and because I had been making the payments in cash and could not prove that I had made them, they refuse to accept that I had paid the money.
So now just before Christmas I have a bill for 30 weeks of maintenace that they want paid. The ex is refusing to tell them that I had been paying for the period so I am now completly f***ed.