Labour to let dead beat dads off the hook with taxpayers to pick up the bill

Radio NZ reports:

Solo who don't name the father of their child will no longer have welfare payments cut, under the Labour-led government's changes to social security.

What means is that will escape financial responsibility for their kids and taxpayers will get left with the bill.

You will see a huge increase in solo mothers not naming the fathers of their children. That gets them off the hook for child support payments.

Child support liability for just one child can be as high as $340 a week. So of course many Dads don't want to be named. They'll happily pay say $40 a week unofficially to avoid paying the $340 a week they should be paying.

This change rewards dead beat Dads and punishes taxpayers. Watch and see the growth in Dads not being named.

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