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| | Proportion of mothers who do not pay CSA is higher than Dads | | | |
| Seven out of 10 absent parents pay maintenance for children
- Image of fathers refusing to pay is exaggerated - CSA
- Proportion of mothers who do not pay is higher
David Hencke, Westminster correspondent
Guardian Monday April 10, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329453996-103690,00.html
The popular image of feckless fathers who leave the marital home and refuse to pay any money towards the upkeep of their former wife and children has been much exaggerated, according to new figures from the Child Support Agency.
Latest returns from the government agency show that a marginally higher proportion of women than men persistently refuse to pay child maintenance.
The CSA's figures show that in the three months to the end of last year some 30% of nonresident parents failed to pay. Of women, 31% were nonpayers, while 30% of men did not pay. The figures were released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Detailed figures released to the Guardian show that it is still predominantly men who leave the family home. But they show that previous figures claiming 70% of men refuse to pay anything are the reverse of the situation - 70% of all absent parents are paying some maintenance.
During the last three months of last year, the CSA sent warnings to 431,000 parents who had left home and needed reminding about payments. Some 413,000 were men and 18,000 were women. But only 124,000 men and 6,000 women refused to pay any money.
The Department for Work and Pensions said: "These figures are a running total showing where the agency's collection service has had to intervene to warn people they were in arrears. Previous figures suggesting that 70% of absent fathers [were nonpayers] were a misinterpretation which the agency has tried to correct."
The father who requested the information said yesterday: "When that 70% figure for nonresident parents not paying anything appeared I knew it couldn't possibly be true.
"You just had to think for a minute to realise it was absurd and it only sounded right to people with a deep personal need to believe it."
The CSA also released figures showing a steadily lengthening period for separated parents to get any money off a former partner. The agency took a mean of 150 days in 2003 to pay. In 2004 this had risen to 202 days and last year this reached 238 days.
The Freedom of Information Act request also reveals a remarkable lack of data held by the CSA about its clients. It does not hold information on how many nonresident parents are in arrears by the time they get their statements, does not know the average amount of arrears among parents who have left home or how many weeks they are in arrears. Nor does it know the number of nonresidents who were identified by its staff in the last five years - though it knows that 120,000 out of the 122,000 new cases last year involved cases where one parent had left the family home.
All this suggests Sir David Henshaw, the former chief executive of Liverpool council, who is heading a review of the CSA, will have a tough job sorting out the facts before he can recommend changes for the agency's future. He is expected to report by July.
The CSA has released its targets for March next year. These include a pledge to clear 55% of new maintenance payments within 12 weeks and 80% within 26 weeks.
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Date published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:28:42 GMT
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