CSA helps 800,000 UK children to receive financial support
June 3, 2010
Child Support Agency help has increased the amount of money being paid to single parent families in the UK over the past 12 months.
When a family separates, adults with dependent children have several options for working out maintenance payments needed from their non-resident partner. They can either come to an arrangement privately, they can pursue financial support via the courts or they can enlist the support of the Child Support Agency.
Statistics released for March 2010 have shown that, in cases where parents have asked for CSA help to determine the level of payment they are owed, the service paid more than ninety four million pounds during the first part of the year directly to the main parental carer of the children concerned. This is the highest figure in two years – more than forty thousands pounds higher than the same quarter in 2008 and even greater than the ninety two million pounds collected in the first sector of 2009.
In addition to this, CSA advice led to more than two hundred and ninety million pounds being collected in total during the same time period – meaning over 800 thousand children benefitted from child maintenance payments during the opening months of 2010.
In the cases handled by the CSA, almost half – 49 percent – of the non-resident parents ordered to contribute towards their children’s care were not in employment. A further 43 percent work for a business, whilst eight percent were self employed.
The Child Support Agency also revealed that it has received more than four million calls for advice during the past twelve months.
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All well and good but what about me and many others who have been on this mess of a system for years (mine 12) and still not got the money they should have so my ex (the NRP) gets away with not paying for his children properly and also fraud? Explain that one then?
The above report states ‘CSA helps 800,000 UK CHILDREN TO RECEIVE financial support’, but then goes on to ‘explain’, not how these CHILDREN HAVE RECEIVED this financial support, but rather how ‘SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES’ or ‘MAIN PARENTAL CARERS’ HAVE RECEIVED this financial support, thus equating the collection and distribution of money from one ADULT human being to another ADULT human being with the support of CHILDREN. It is precisely this imbecilic reduction of complex human relationships to binary simplicity which defines the CSA/CMEC and underscores exactly why we are where we are with this whole scandalous abuse of public trust and public money. Not that we need trouble ourselves with the complexity of human relationships to blow the above article out of the water, because for one very important reason – legislation – the above headline can not, repeat not, repeat not be said to follow from the ‘explanation’ given in the article which is below it. It is a non-sequitur.
Under The Child Support Act 1991, the CSA does not have the power to monitor/control/police/measure/check (add verb of choice) what happens to the money it hands over to ADULTS. The CSA has the power only to collect money from one ADULT human being and to give it over to another ADULT human being. For the above, entirely misleading, report, along with thousands of other such similar misleading ‘reports’ made over the last seventeen years by CSA apologists, to be shown to be ‘good news’ (meaning, the report of CHILD support being facilitated where non existed previously), those making them would have to prove A.) that all money collected is *NEW money, and B.) that this collected *NEW money was used, post distribution by the CSA, wholly and exclusively for the support of CHILDREN. In the absence of such proof, all else is propaganda.
Don’t believe me? Have a laugh and ask yourself/your MP/The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions/The CSA/CMEC to answer the following four questions:-
1. From 5 April 1993 to the present date, how much money has been collected and distributed by the CSA/CMEC?
2. How much of the money collected and distributed over this period by the CSA/CMEC was/is *new money?
3. How much of the money collected and distributed over this period by the CSA/CMEC has been used for the support of children?
4. How much of the money collected and distributed over this period by the CSA/CMEC has been received by children?
*New money defined as money which was NOT already being used for the support of children by those from whom it was collected.