Feeling luckier? By Paul Gosling
October 6, 2007
Feeling luckier? By Paul Gosling (PF 19/1/07)
CSA – designed to recover welfare costs for single parents. Actually cost £200m per year more than collected.
IT problems (bad PFI contract) and over-complex assessment system.
Bad incentives – parents and children didn’t have anything to gain because everything recovered was taken from their benefit. Neither parent has incentive to cooperate.
Replacement C-Mec will encourage private agreements with financial incentives.
