Many parts of the federal government’s budget have been hotly debated in recent weeks.
But budgets are dense documents. There are always important measures that receive very little attention. One of these is planned changes to Australia’s child support system. The government has allocated $182 million over the next four years to make the system “safer and more effective”.
Almost one million children nationally are registered to receive child support every year. The amendments would change the way many parents experience the system and provide for their families.
What are the proposed changes?
The proposed changes would encourage child support to be collected directly from wages more often. About half of child support…