The agency's chief executive Stephen Geraghty is due to present apackage of performance improving measures later this month.
According to media reports, one option favoured by Department for Workand Pensions ministers is to sell on the debt collection function, withprivate firms taking a share.
Child Poverty Action Group chief executive Kate Green welcomed the movebut said that questions remained. "What methods will the private firmsuse, how will they be regulated and how much of the debt they collectwill be kept as profit?" she asked.
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