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He said the program heavily relies on the recipi- ent for facts such as where he works, banks, whether he has a cottage or has bought a new car. "We'll try to collect but it's a lot easier if we have information," he said. Although automatic wage deduc- tions taken from employees' cheques accounted for 67% of support pay- ments getting to mothers on time as of April 30th. Brownstone admitted there were limits to the government's power to collect overdue payments from the rest. Of these, some are unemployed, others unable to be found and still others self-employed. However, the government has its collection tools. more than a private agency has because, as a government law enforcement agency, it has Mothers who are owed child sup- port payments should leave informa- tion about the defaulter's assets along with their support orders, with the Family Support Plan says one enforcer in the system. THE OAKVILLE BEAVEI access to government data, noted Brownstone. 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However, if the conveyance occurred a reasonable time before a government investigation, there's nothing that can be done about it, noted the director. Other defaulters might try to avoid child support payments by moving to another province or coun- try only to find the government right behind them. They can be traced and made to pay up through a Reciprocal Agreement between Ontario, other provinces, many states in the U.S. and some other countries, said Brownstone. e "Regina and I aren't the only ones by far," said Pakka. "There are thousands of women out there. One woman in our group, for instance, is owed $61,000. That's ridiculous! And what has the government done? Nothing!" She also noted that two women attending MAFIA's June 3rd meet- ing had to resort to food banks to feed their children because their fathers had neglected to send in their child support payments. These methods include "employ- er reporting" to quickly track the whereabouts of a defaulting employ- ee. Another one is licence withhold- ing where the person pays his over- due child support payments or must enter into a payment plan before he can get or renew a licence. But the best method of all would be an attitude change. If defaulting on child support payments became just as socially unacceptable as drinking and driving, then the prob- lem could be substantially dimin- ished, said Brownstone. He'd like to see other people severely criticize fathers for taking a fancy vacation or buying a new car when they haven't honored their support payments. "Of the $600 million paid out to assist families, $200 million of it is support payments we are trying to collect back from social assistance agencies (by getting defaulters to pay up)," said Brownstone. "Who's paying? You and me! That's why I think attitudes have to change." People even boast they're one step ahead of the governmental col- lection agency and, surprisingly, they have a lot of sympathizers. Brownstone said employers, friends, second families -. all tend to applaud skippers as they skirt around their obligations to pay for food and clothing for their own children. It only adds to the problem of child poverty in this province which Brownstone described as "humungous." Shunning their responsibilities puts the onus of providing for their children squarely on the taxpayers‘ shoulders. .‘ A letter to an Oakville Beaver editor expressed the benefit of leg- islative change: "As a committee, we would of course like to see the creation of a fair and equitable sys- tem of child support. At the present time the public purse is taxed for support and for the legal process that addresses failed payment. At this time, we are all conscious of economic restraint but have within, our midst a system which continues to cost the public. As stated in the government sponsored television, advertisement 1..if he doesn't pay, we all pay.'" "lt distresses me that child sup- port is not seen as a priority," he said. "They'll pay the mortgage, the car and the credit cards but child support is seen as different. Yet these are the people who say they love their kids." Until changes come, the group believes that many women will continue struggling while their ex- spouses and ex-partners - many of them well-to-do - go their own way, blithely ignoring their respon- sibilities to their children. i paying." Women want action Roger Ebert's Movie Review 5703 Video Review 5704 (Continued from page 12) call J9