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CSA Boss Cathy Argall moved out

After a spectacular ‘dummy spit’ in response to the release of the PIR Report into the cost of CSA to the Australian Taxpayer, CSA General Manager, Cathy Argall has been moved to the Health Insurance Commission, and 2IC Sheila Bird is now the Acting General Manager, with ex Queensland Regional Registrar Angela Tillman appointed as Acting Assistant General Manager

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Child support scheme – national financial disaster says Report

*High unemployment contributes to hidden costs of $3,700 million p.a.
*Children’s weekly support payments decrease!
A report into CSA The cost to the taxpayer – PIR confirms the child support scheme is financially, a national disaster and the hidden costs to the tax payer far outweigh any benefits claimed by the Child Support Agency.

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Dads turning to DNA to resolve child support disputes

MARK COLVIN: Surveys differ wildly on the percentage of men who falsely believe they’re the father of a child.
A UK study put it at 30 per cent. Melbourne’s Swinburne University said it was just one per cent.
But what’s clear is that with DNA testing becoming more accessible, paternity is also getting easier to identify.
And the recent reform of child support laws has also empowered men. In fact there’s been a spate of cases where women have been forced to pay back child support to men they wrongly identified as the father.

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Fair Share

Separated parents would share equal responsibility for their children’s upbringing under a proposed overhaul of the family law system which recommends sidelining the involvement of

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Watered down child support changes approved

Labour and Democrat senators refused to allow any measure that would reduce the money paid to the custodial parent.
Gone is the relief of a 2 and 3% reduction in formula payments for those parents who have their children between 10 and 30 % per of time.
Gone is the relief afforded by a reduction in the top income amount of $110K to $79K.

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CSA tells only 25% of the story!

According to the latest figures from CSA separated fathers are not so badly off as they think!
Kathleen Swinbourne, president of the Sole Parents Union has hardly been able to contain her delight that CSA have released costings under the questionable heading “Demonstrating Family Income Before and After Separation”.

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CSA booed and jeered!

A report from an observer who attended a Child Support Agency Information Meeting held at the Camden Civic Centre on Thursday evening February 1, 2001.

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