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Issues - CSA - fathers takes CSA to ECHR
Mr Cook claims he is paying over
the odds
A father is taking the Child Support
Agency (CSA) to the European Court of Human Rights over claims
he pays more than he should to support his daughter.
Mark Cook is one of the victims of a new computer system which
the agency said it could not address until it is working properly.
Mr Cook, from Cupar, Fife, pays £250 a month in maintenance
for his daughter.
Under new rules he would pay nearly £100 a month less,
but he is angry that the agency will not re-assess him.
Mr Cook discovered that the CSA brought in the new assessment
system last year.
His lawyer believes the situation constitutes discrimination
and is taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights
in Strasbourg.
The CSA said all absent parents will eventually be assessed
in the same way, but not before new computers were finally
working properly.
Thousands of parents have been hit by the CSA computer problems,
which began after the new system was installed in April 2003.
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