Child Support Agency (CSA) arrangements are ending between now and 2017

[Kati]

Child maintenance arrangements made through the Child Support Agency (CSA) will be ending between now and 2017.

If the CSA handles your child maintenance, you値l get a letter telling you:

• when your child maintenance arrangement will end
• how and when to make new child maintenance arrangements

You値l be sent the letter between now and the end of 2017. You don稚 need to do anything until you get the letter.
You値l usually get the letter at least 6 months before your child maintenance arrangement ends. You値l also get a reminder letter about 1 month before your arrangement ends.

Your current CSA child maintenance arrangements
Your child maintenance arrangements will continue as usual until the date CSA tell you in the letter. You must continue your payments if you池e a paying parent.
You値l still have to pay any arrears you owe, even after your child maintenance arrangement ends.

What happens next
When you get the letter, you can either:

• arrange child maintenance yourself
• make new child maintenance arrangements through the new Child Maintenance Service

Contact Child Maintenance Options for information on making child maintenance arrangements.

https://www.gov.uk/csa-changes

[cococat1]

Re: Child Support Agency (CSA) arrangements are ending between now and 2017

This is very interesting and I am sure will impact many, my family included.

Having done a little research on the matter from what I can see if an agreement cannot be reached by both parents then an application costing ｣20.00 can be made to the new maintenance service to calculate the correct amount due, which I suspect will be done by the majority of receiving parties to make sure they are getting the correct amount. So who pays this ｣20.00?, the one who requests the calculation or is it something the paying party will be forced to pay for also?
So once this calculation is done and the amount due is confirmed does the paying parent automatically get the chance to pay it direct to the receiving parent without the receiving parents input? I am sure you can see what I am trying to get at here if you have researched this a little as I have.
If the maintenance service collects the maintenance payments rather than the paying parent making them direct to the receiving parent, the paying parent is forced to pay an extra 20% whilst the receiving parent is forced to pay 4% (the maintenance services fee for collecting the payment). Due to the bad feeling between a number of parents I believe many receiving parents would be willing to forfeit 4% just to ensure the paying person has to pay 20% more. Is anything in place to actually stop this happening? If the paying parent is more than willing to pay the correct amount directly to the receiving parent then can they force it to be paid through the maintenance service to the paying party has these additional costs each month?
Does anybody know any more info on this?