Bump Twice for Effect
You would think that New Zealand, with a population the size of a small London or New York suburb would find the whole business of child support to be a doddle.
With the ‘officials’ managing the system living in the next street along one might imagine that a chat over a cup of tea would resolve most issues. But no. There is a vast government machine numbering, oh, say, 10 people, determined to add to the Global Financial Crisis by bumping up debt to employ an army-company sized bunch of zozhial verkers mitt batons.
A chap in NZ writes…….
$1.5b owed in child support
This mornings Dominion Post : Almost a third of liable parents are shunning child support obligations, the highest rate in five years. At June 30, the child support hole totalled $1.5 billion. Inland Revenue is chasing more than $527 million owed by parents, with more than $1 billion owed in penalties. Fathers in Manukau and Gisborne and mothers in Invercargill and Dunedin were the worst offenders. A third of all debt is from Kiwi parents living overseas.
This article is a skewed spin doctoring of child tax debt, he says.
1) Only $527m in child tax is “owed”, the rest is penalties that go to the tax-womans coffers.
2) Dunne has had 9 years to resolve the “debt crises”, but has only managed to continue to grow the debt.
His actions and his officals advice, which is implemented in Law to fix the problems always makes it worse. If any other group where treated like this it would not be tolerated.
Children’s Commissioner John Angus said parents had a moral and legal obligation to pay. Parents were not meeting their responsibilities to their child when they elected not to pay. “Children can get a message the non-custodial parent doesn’t care about them and how they are getting on, because they don’t care enough to make a financial contribution for them,” Dr Angus said.
I would suggest, says my Kiwi correspondent, that this is reflective of the level of understanding of the Familes Commission on the subject of Child Tax – they dont have a clue what they are talking about.
Angus reduces the support of children to some English poor law notion from the 19th Century . Children never see any of the Child Tax paid, and in many cases don’t see the paying parent but that has no relationship at all to weather a parent cares about his child or not.
His statement is filled with bias and assumption, not reality and fact.
Mr Dunne said a Government review of the child support system was under way and would assess the actual cost of raising a child, how payments were measured and whether the system was fair, and would propose changes
The review is by people whose type of thinking created the current mess – Officials and The Families Commission – The reality is that new thinking is required.
Putting a human face shoved into the coal-face to it , yet another Kiwi writes:-
Funny thing….I went off the DPB in January when I started a full time job, and because both parents worked full time, niether of us paid child support. Then 5 months later the organisation I worked for got into financial difficulties and went into recievership.
I worked for 6 weeks without pay before I finally went to WINZ and applied to go back on the DPB. Because my son stays with me ONLY 50% of the time (week about), I get aprox. $100 per week less than the full DPB… $332 per week to be exact.
My weekly costs are; rent $225, Genesis power $40 (I can’t change this) and $61 per week for a bedroom suite for my son. Thankfully I have $6 left per week to pay for groceries, transport, medical, clothing etc. Or at least I thought so…
IRD have started charging child support again since I applied for the DPB, and in two months it has already accumulated to $144 and they are now adding on penalties.
Peter Dunne should be forced live on $332 per week with one child and give his child’s food money to IRD to pay for child support. What a circus you run Mr Dunne.
See all at:-
http://menz.org.nz/2009/1-5b-owed-in-child-support/#comment-283945
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Stumble It!
August 26th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
“The person who has nothing for which is he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
– John Stuart Mill
August 31st, 2009 at 12:03 pm
It’s considered a truism that “you can’t get blood out of a turnip” but this wisdom seems lost on those who write child support laws. There is usually no out for the non-custodial parent — usually the father — who just doesn’t have the money to make payments. Without poverty as a defense, going to jail for failing to pay child-support is a modern-day debtor’s prison.