Child Support Agency (CSA) works to provide excellent services while handling
child poverty. But the reason that evaluations based on the same financial
criteria can give rise to different results, depending on which rules the case
is examined under can lead to inactions instead of actions of the Child Support
Agency. If you are disagreeing with the CSA services then you can make
complaints.
A complaint is a request to CSA to legitimately review the decision. You can
make complaints regarding CSA delays, wrong assessments of your earnings by CSA,
incorrect application of law, CSA has overlooked relevant details in making the
decision, has not considered all the facts etc. If you have CSA
complaints concerning the CSA decisions then follow the following steps to
resolve it:
- It is recommended that you first contact CSA and confirm from customer
service officer whether you can object to a CSA decision or not. If the CSA
decision is objectionable then customer service officer would try to solve the
problem.
- If you feel that customer service officer has not settled your complaint to
your satisfaction level then you can send it to Complaints Resolution Team. You
can contact the CSA Complaints Resolution Team by calling the phone number or
writing to them, or by filling in the online complaint form.
- If you are still not satisfied with the decisions made by the Complaints
Resolution Team then you can contact Complaints Review Team.
- If you have followed this complaints procedure and have been unable to
resolve a complaint then you can contact the Independent Case Examiner (ICE).
ICE is as an independent body to deal with complaints about the
CSA.
The Independent Case Examiner ICE is a free
service and is not a part of CSA. ICE will only consider the case if it is sure
that CSA has dealt with the complaint, complaint has undergone each stage of the
CSA complaint process and it has been contacted within six months of getting a
final reply from Complaints Review Team. The Independent Case Examiner can't
consider a complaint if:
- Child Support Agency has not been given the chance to resolve the matter
first.
- It is more than six months since the CSA's final reply.
- The complaint is about legislation that is it includes the amount of the
maintenance calculation.
- The complaint is the subject of legal proceedings like judicial
review.
CSA takes all complaints very gravely and is aware that it
doesn't always reach the right decisions. CSA values your feedback and it is due
to this reason that it is improving its services and processes every year. You
can log on to
http://www.cv-service.org/csa.htm
to get information regarding child support payments, CSA complaints, CSA
calculator, child maintenance, CSA reform and more.