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02/02/2012 9:14 pm
Hi forum.
I,m new here.
Please could anyone give me information or advice on the child support agency and trust deeds.
My partner and i pay £250 per month to the child support agency as the say we are in arrears with his maintenance fot 2 children that are now 21 and 23 years of age.We have been in talks with them since 2003 and it is still on going,we have letters saying we have to pay 1 amount and then letters saying we have to pay another amount.So now they say we have arrears of £8500 but at 1 point we had overpaid and they sent us a giro for the refund.My question is if they have calculated it wrong and we are due to pay this amount (which i say we are not)can this be added to our trust deed ? We have already paid £2000 of this so called underpayment since we entered our trust deed which we have no control over as the csa take it directly of my partners salary.Any information or advice would be very helpful.
02/02/2012 9:52 pm
CSA arrears certainly can and should be included in your partner's trust deed. Speak to your trustee and they should contact them and get the deductions from earnings stopped.
The only thing is that your trustee may wish to review your partner's level of contributions since his income will effectively rise.
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02/02/2012 9:54 pm
Welcome to the trust deed forum mamo25.
I think CSA arrears that existed at the time you signed your trust deeds should be included as a creditor. Hopefully Mark, Shona or Kevin can confirm.
I think you should raise this with your Trustee to get their thoughts, but it seems a bit tricky if you want to add a debt you say does not exist. It might be useful to have a third party such as your Trustee assess this side of things to get an external view on the situation.
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02/02/2012 9:56 pm
Ooops. Kevin types quicker than me!
Glad I understood correctly though.
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Topic starter
02/02/2012 10:03 pm
Thanks for coming back to me regarding this Kevin.
We both have a trust deed which we pay £300 between us each month.Since the csa started taking this money of my partners salary every month.The 1st month we had to borrow money of relatives to get by but now my partner has no option but to work all the overtime he can get at work to cover the csa payments.Would this make any diffrence,We dont have much of a family life as my partner is worked to the bone to cover this.If we did not have this £250 to pay we could have some normality in our.
02/02/2012 10:10 pm
Sounds fair to me mamo25, I am sure any reasonable trustee would see it this way too.
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02/02/2012 10:12 pm
THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR REPLY.
We have been fighting with the csa regarding this for years but they are adamant we are due this money and they wont take no for an answer.We are at the stage that we dont no what to do regarding this anymore so we thought it best that my partner work all the overtime to pay the debt so we it would be paid of in a few year.
