AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2004
Fathers owe more than $700 million in maintenance
The child support scheme is reportedly to be overhauled as figures show that Australian
fathers owe more than $A700 million in unpaid maintenance.
The Sunday Telegraph newspaper says a special unit of the Child Support Agency is cracking
down on fathers who don't pay.
The paper says the unit this year has recovered $19 million, but has made hardly a
dent into the $752 million accumulated since the child maintenance scheme began in 1988.
The Sunday Telegraph says figures for 2003-2004 show about 40 per cent of fathers pay
$5 or less a week in maintenance, in many cases because they have no job.
It says the federal Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, LARRY ANTHONY, plans to
set up a task force to re-evaluate the scheme.
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KEYWORD: MAINTENANCE (SYDNEY)
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