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Child Support Scheme facts and figures

• More than 1.5 million customers are registered with CSA
• More than 1.1 million children receive child support payments collected by CSA
• $2.6 billion in child support was transferred between parents in 2005-06
• More than $22 billion in child support payments has been transferred since CSA was established
• Over half of CSA customers choose to pay/receive child support privately
• For every dollar CSA collects it costs less than 12 cents

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What the Child Support Scheme aims to do

The Child Support Scheme aims to ensure that:

• Parents share in the cost of supporting their children, according to their capacity
• Adequate support is available for all children not living with both parents
• Commonwealth involvement and expenditure is limited to the minimum necessary to ensure children's needs are met
• Incentives for both parents to participate in the work force are not impaired, and
• The overall arrangements are simple, flexible and efficient.

Child support legislation provides for:

• Assessment of how much child support is payable by administrative assessment
• Registration of court orders for child and spousal maintenance, court registered agreements and administrative assessments;
• Collection of child support
• Disbursement of child support, and
• Changes to the administrative assessment because of special circumstances.

Child support legislation does not provide for:

• Care and contact of children
• Property settlement, or
• Determining spousal maintenance.

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