
Is child support enforcement as corrupt in the UK as in the US? | HBR Talk 419
"The agency has since stopped recording minutes at these meetings."
Hannah Wallen, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted on a Daily Mail investigation into Britain's Child Maintenance Service, which found at least one more father who killed himself after years of being overcharged.
Also: a man whose earnings the agency inflated by ten thousand pounds, leaving him paying more than double what he owed; another whose debt it multiplied by ten; one father who got six letters in a single day, each naming a different sum; the comparisons being drawn to the Post Office Horizon scandal; and…
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