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I Can’t Do This
The Form
Textiles, metal
Year
2024
“I can’t do this”. This government form is a weapon.
The Child Support Agency Change of Assessment process requires this form and its attachments to be given to the other parent.
In a domestic violence situation, this amounts to the victim providing key details of her new life on a platter, enabling the perpetrator to weaponise her data and further abuse, manipulate or stalk her.
The onus is on the victim to assess the potential risk to her safety of this information in the perpetrators hands.
If she refuses to fill in the form, then she is denied a timely reassessment of the child support payment.
Often this results in having to wait for years for the payments to be reconciled through the tax system and forgoing access to $1000s for her children.