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    Lower child support payments to lowest-income neighbourhoods

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    For families living in the lowest-income neighbourhoods, child support payments are both lower and less likely to arrive compared with the support payments made to other families in their city.

    In seven census metropolitan areas (CMAs), families with one child who lived in the lowest-income neighbourhoods in 2009 were due to receive a median monthly payment of $238 per month, 21% less than the $300 due to similar families living in the highest-income neighbourhoods.

    Families living in the lowest-income neighbourhoods were also less likely to receive their child support payments than families living elsewhere in the CMA. In March 2009, 56% of families in the lowest-income neighbourhoods received their regular payment in full and 10% received a partial payment. By contrast, 66% of families living in the highest-income neighbourhoods received their regular payment in full and 16% received a partial payment.

    chart 5.3 Child support due March 2009
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