Despite Liberal pledge to reform Ontario agency, growing number of parents fail to pay child support
September 6, 2008STAFF REPORTER
Under the Progressive Conservative governments of Mike Harris and successor Ernie Eves, only prisons generated more complaints to the provincial ombudsman than the problem-plagued Family Responsibility Office.
Hundreds of mothers complained that the office, which collects and distributes child support, didn't try hard enough to compel fathers to pay up. Some were forced into poverty. Hundreds of fathers complained the office hounded them for not making payments they had indeed made. Some lost their property and their reputations.
When the Liberals were elected in 2003, Premier Dalton McGuinty vowed the office would improve. Yet it now collects support from a smaller proportion of "deadbeat" parents than it did back then.
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