SPECIAL REPORT: Deadbeat parents shown how to “legally” avoid child support
WITH more than 1200 Mackay parents struggling to meet their financial obligations for their kids, experts are pressuring the Turnbull Government to overhaul the much-maligned child support system.
Exclusive data obtained by NewsRegional shows 4411 Mackay residents should be paying child support but 28 per cent – 1226 – are behind in their payments.
Most of the debtors are men, with 1058 Mackay fathers owing money.
There are 138 mothers with a child support debt and 30 residents of “unknown gender” who also owe money.
The Department of Human Services could not tell NewsRegional how much money is owed locally, but it confirmed that nat…
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