R0bert,

You will enjoy reading the Ombudsman's reports of the last few years. There is an interesting progression, including a couple of example "cases" about two or three years ago. The CSA has not got a "compensation and waivers team" for nothing. It is to redress bizarre excesses far in excess of a poorly-derived formula.

The poorly-derived formula you lament is almost the least of issues with the child support act, which is vigourously discussed over at the Family Law Web Guide.

Rusty.

what is not generally understood is that Self Raising Flour applied liberally to the head of the [Lee] child can reduce the raising cost by big mobs

Actually, the CSA Compensation Waiver Team is not there to redress the bizarre excesses, it is to get waivers of future legal claims from the clients they have mistreated. It Addresses rather than redresses, in the only manner they know - dodging liability, but it is at least an acknowledgement that there are many many things they have gotten wrong.

Rusty