Travel bans net millions in child support

NEWS: Human Services Minister Michael Keenan has slammed parents who don't pay child support after travel bans led to $15 million being recouped in six months.

Passengers departing an airport

Source: AAP Image/Brendan Esposito

A record number of child support dodgers have been stopped from going overseas as part of a $15 million crackdown on parents shirking their obligations.

Some 1067 people were slapped with international travel bans in the first half of this financial year, an increase of almost 50 per cent on the same six-month period last year.

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