WA Challenging a Child Support Assessment

[Tremaine]

Yes, CSA really pressured my partner to ‘gift’ his overpayments to his ex, probably because it’s a pain in the neck to try and get back once my partner became the payee.

For you, though, it should sit as a credit on your account, meaning they’ll just take payments from that credit first, rather than from your wages.

 

[sammy01]

so CSA should credit your account from the time of the initial application that they got wrong. So 6 months.
Yep they will try and get you to 'gift' it. FFS.
Mate could be worse - when my ex dumped the kids and left, she refused to call CSA, refused all communication. So they continued to take $500 a fortnight from my pay and give it to her. Never gonna see that $$ again...