The Department for Work and Pensions last month published a white paperon the future of child maintenance.
The document outlines plans to replace the agency with a ChildMaintenance and Enforcement Commission, in an effort to ensure that moreparents take financial responsibility for their children.
The DWP also announced that, from 2010/11, it would "significantlyincrease the amount of maintenance that parents on benefit can keepbefore it affects the level of benefit they receive". Other proposalsinclude making parents give up their passport if they fail to pay.
The Child Poverty Action Group said that it was "disappointed" that thechanges would "come into force too late" to help achieve the aim ofhalving child poverty by 2010.
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