Watchdog lambast the CSA
April 10, 2008
The Child Support Agency has come under fire from Watchdog because of its abject failure to collect the monies owed to children by absent parents.
The amount owed in Northern Ireland alone is £71 MILLION according the a report from the Public Accounts Committee at Stormont.
The CSA considers 58% of the £71 MILLION owed to be uncollectable, which is unacceptable.
John O’Doud, of the PAC said:
We have urged that the CSA does go out after the money, that they set higher targets - £1.5m of debt collection next year is not acceptable.
It is the committee’s view that this is sending out the message that if someone is assessed by the Agency for child maintenance they do not have to pay because it is unlikely that the Agency will collect it.
This is just the icing on the cake of course, because while the CSA has written off countless millions of pounds worth of debt, they’re also targeting absent parents who don’t owe the amounts they’re being forced to pay, in many cases causing bankruptcy.
via BBC
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