Some 119,072,302 callers to lines offering help on issues including benefit claims,
child support payments, pensions and tax credits, got engaged tones, were lost in the system or gave up the call before talking to an adviser.
Mr Blunkett gave a personal apology to one mother who has been waiting four years for
child support payments and promised her that he would ensure that the money would get to her within days
As a result, there has been an increase in
child support payments and concomitantly a larger number of parenting plans established.
Court ordered
child support payments will be backed up by stronger enforcement under proposed legislation introduced.
When Wise went to court asking to be relieved of the
child support payments that consumed a third of his take-home pay, he was turned down.
In some blended families one spouse, often the husband, will have to make
child support payments to a former spouse," says Cheryl Creuzot, president and COO of the AFP Group.
He has a personal life to match: He cut himself off from his family, abused his first wife, and was stunningly stingy in
child support payments to a son from his first marriage.
After much study, the federal government has moved to implement changes to the system of
child support payments.
A trap for the unwary is present in situations in which final marital separation agreements not only call for
child support payments, but also modifiable alimony payments on a reduction schedule for the future (Temp.
The refund due the couple is $2,996 ($16,000-$13,004), but the wife is delinquent in
child support payments from a previous marriage.
based Children's Defense Fund (CDF), parents are 16 times more likely to fall behind with their
child support payments than with their car payments.
