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[Date & reference] 1997-02-25 This Is Lancashire I scrounge from pensioner mum to pay for my son
DIVORCED Dad [X] says he has been left wondering where his next meal is coming from after the Child Support Agency increased his weekly payments from £7 to £70. The 42-year-old Group 4 security guard only realised his contributions had been reassessed when the money had already been deducted from his first wage of the year. He said: "I still can't believe they have pushed me on to the poverty line. I have been forced to scrounge off my 76-year-old mother who is on state benefits." He says the new amount must have been assessed when his pay was unusually high because he was doing extra hours at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool. "I just don't understand why the CSA has decided to reassess my payments when my circumstances have not changed. "I literally don't know where my next meal is coming from because all of my income during the last three weeks has been swallowed up by them."
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