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The Child Support Agency (CSA) is responsible for the majority of male suicide in Australia, newspaper stories indicate.

Suicide Victims “hounded” over child support

YOU'VE PUSHED HIM TO THE GRAVE EX-PARTNER TELLS CSA OFFICE,  SUPPORT PAYMENTS 'DROVE MAN TO SUICIDE'

The CSA appears to have formulated a set of standard standover tactics for use by its case managers.  This systematic hounding drives three (3) men to suicide daily, in Australia, it has been reported by the Canberra Times.

QUEANBEYAN woman Kate Gibbs is convinced the pressure of making child support payments while being unable to build a new life of his own is what finally drove her former partner to commit suicide.

Ms Gibbs said Warren Gilbert always expected to support his three children but not to the extent where he was only working to keep up the payments and simply exist.

The 28 year old Canberra man died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a friend's car in August while clutching a letter of demand from the Child Support Agency which he had received two days earlier.

The behaviour of these case managers after the suicide of a client is even more reprehensible.  Apparently they hound their victims until they suicide they then immediately focus on hounding the victims loved ones in order to gain information as to the assets and other financial information etc. relating to the deceased.

Ms Gibbs, who was with him for four years, claims she rang Mr Gilbert's CSA case manager the day after she discovered he was dead.

"Pretty much the first thing that came out of her mouth was, 'Did he have a will? Does he have any assets?' and I said, 'You're not taking anything else off him. You've pushed him to the grave,"' she said.

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