- Target:
- The Hon Brendan O'Connor, Minister for Human Services
- Region:
- Australia
In July,2008 the Child Support Agency changed their process in calculating how much a parent was liable to pay. It used to be based on the non-supporting parents basic income, but since then, it is now been based on the non-supporting parents total taxable income.
So, if you're like me, earning an average wage and have bills and commitments like everyone else, this needs to be reverted back to how it was. If I have the opportunity to work extra hours to try and get ahead, why, should my ex partner benefit from my hard work?
There is a difference between dodging Child Support payments and being treated fairly.
I don't begrudge paying Child Support, as long as it is going to my children, but I do begrudge being ripped off to make up for the ones that don't pay and don't care if they pay or not.
I ask all of you to try and think of any other Government Department, Organisation or Authority that has the right to intercept your Tax Refund cheque and the ability to garnishee your bank account.
We, the undersigned, call on the Child Support Agency to revert the non-supporting parents payments, back to being calculated on the non-supporting parents basic wage. Not as it has been since July,2008, being calculated on the non-supporting parents taxable income".
The current system of calculation is not fair to the people of Australia who are abiding by the law.
We should not have to make up for the ones who aren't.
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The Revert Child Support payments back to non-supporting parents basic wage petition to The Hon Brendan O'Connor, Minister for Human Services was written by Phil and is in the category Government at GoPetition.