Parents owe children PLN 9.4 bln in back alimony

Child maintenance arrears stood at nearly PLN 9.4 billion at the end of September, owed by 282,300 debtors, according to the InfoMonitor Office of Economic Information.

Men are dominant among the child maintenance debtors, constituting 95 percent of the total. The biggest debtors are fathers aged 35-44 and 45-54. The average value of outstanding child maintenance payments is growing steadily. From the end of June to the end of September 2016, it jumped by PLN 859 to PLN 33,160. The average arrears are the highest in Lublin voivodship: PLN 37,917. The next four voivodships with the highest arrears are Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Świętokrzyskie, Pomorskie, and Małopolskie – in all of them, the debts exceed PLN 35,000. The lowest average amounts of arrears are in the Lubuskie and Silesia voidvodships.