More parents now paying maintenance in Wales
New figures that have just been released have shown a huge increase in Child Support Maintenance payments being made in Wales.
The Child Support Agency has published official figures showing that 78 per cent of children entitled to maintenance are now getting regular payments, which is up from 2005’s figure of 62 per cent. Overall, 50,000 children who are a part of a separated family are receiving maintenance, up 15,000 from five years ago.
A fifth of parents with a liability for maintenance did not make any payment during the first quarter of 2010, compared to a third of parents from 2005. It is thought that tougher action taken against parents who fail to take any responsibility for the upkeep of their children accounts for the rise in figures.
The head team leader of legal enforcement in Wales, Steve Harrison, said:
“It’s a growing area for the agency where an aim is to get to people who are not prepared to pay for their children much quicker, getting them to make regular payments.”
“We’ve been able to deal with more cases. There’s less chance of people evading us.”
Steps the Child Support Agency take when a liable parent falls into arrears with payments include deductions from benefits or earnings, freezing bank accounts or invoking bailiffs, and five people in the last twelve months have been jailed due to non payment.
It is advisable that if a parent falls behind with maintenance payments, they seek CSA arrears advice to avoid such an outcome.
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‘The Child Support Agency has published official figures showing that 78 per cent of CHILDREN entitled to maintenance ARE NOW GETTING REGULAR PAYMENTS, which is up from 2005’s figure of 62 per cent. Overall, 50,000 CHILDREN who are a part of a separated family ARE RECEIVING MAINTENANCE, up 15,000 from five years ago’.
Under The Child Support Act 1991, The ‘Child Support’ Agency does not have the powers, the use of which, would allow it to make the above statements. It is propaganda. The ‘Child Support’ Agency only has the power to collect money from one ADULT human being and to pass it on to another ADULT human being. To equate directly an increase in such activity with an increase in child support is a bit like an agency tasked with the supply of beds to hospitals equating directly an increase in deliveries with a benefit being bestowed upon patients… all while conveniently forgetting to mention the fact that it has no idea if any of the beds delivered ever actually made it onto any wards, and/or that one of the principle places from which it obtains beds in the first place is hospitals… even if this requires their throwing any present occupants on the floor.