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[Date & reference] 1997-06-03 This Is Lancashire CSA hit dad with £19,500 bill
A BOLTON dad who lives on the breadline has been landed with a £19,500 bill from the Child Support Agency - despite paying maintenance for the last 16 years. Furious [X] and [Y] have hit out at the "heartless" agency they say has threatened to take them to court. They say [Y], who split from his first wife in 1981, has been paying £40 a month to Bolton Magistrates Court for the last 16 years supporting his teenage son. But according to records by the CSA, [Y], who works at a Bolton DIY firm, has neglected his duty and now has to pay £107 a month to make up the £19,500 arrears. A spokesman for the CSA said that if a maintenance order was being paid then the bill would be an error and every effort would be made to rectify the damage caused. A CSA spokesman, however, said that clients who do not provide them with enough information would be given a deduction from income order. The CSA spokesman added: "A client who simply will not provide the necessary information should not have been surprised when, after reasonable warning, an interim assessment was made and a deduction from earnings order imposed.
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