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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my 3 children i live with are being forced into poverty by the csa… they want half of our tax credits for my ex partner with my 2 children ,, discusting goverment we have im affraid. my wife now wants to leave our home and go on her own back into a councill house and back on benifits which will cost the tax payer more .. we were given this advise by somone who has done this and are now better of and living better …. what a good idea .. so declare splitting up live appart have seperate claims ,, then the csa cant starve your kids that you live with to feed your exes kids with caviar .. or ex partner with new shoes and hair… we are just looking into it now as we have had enough
have you ever thought that the nrp simply does not have the stupid amounts of money they csa take from the nrp and i imagine the figure the csa have given are complete lies as most of the so called case workers are .too they feed you with rubbish & its no good appealing on a disition they have made because its simply not heard by anyone .& too right matthew you & your wife should do it for the sake of your own children .