WITH more than 600 Gympie 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 2281 Gympie residents should be paying child support but 28 per cent – 628 – are behind in their payments.
Most of the debtors are men, with 531 Gympie fathers owing money.
There are 82 mothers with a child support debt and 15 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 nationwide fathers owed their children almost $1.5 billion and mothers owed $56.3 milli…
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