Child Support Agency
CSA
1 June 1988 – 2011
Agency that registered, assessed, collected and transferred child support payable by separated parents, administering the Child Support Scheme.
How it came into existence
Set up within the Australian Taxation Office on 1 June 1988 under the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988, headed by the Child Support Registrar, to collect court-ordered and agreed child maintenance; it had no predecessor, child maintenance having previously been left to the courts.
- Child support registration, assessment and collection
Legislation: Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988; Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989
Changes during its life
- 1 October 1989The Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 introduced administrative assessment of child support by formula for parents separating after this date.
- 21 October 1998Moved from the Australian Taxation Office to the new Department of Family and Community Services.
- 26 October 2004Became part of the new Department of Human Services.
How it ended
Its separate identity ended as the Department of Human Services integrated its service-delivery agencies from 1 July 2011; child support continued as a program of the department under the name Child Support and is now delivered by Services Australia.
- Child support registration, assessment and collection
Part of the department from 2004; its separate identity ended with the 2011 integration.
Main functions
- Registration of child support liabilities
- Administrative assessment of child support by formula
- Collection and transfer of child support payments
- Enforcement of child support debts
- Review of child support assessments
Where it sits
Last in the portfolio of Department of Human Services.
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Sources
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