Weapons engineer blames CSA for loss of job
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Your support makes all the difference.A Royal Navy lieutenant said yesterday that the pounds 600-a-month demands of the CSA were forcing him to quit his pounds 30,000-a-year job and become unemployed. Tom Smyth, 39, a weapons engineer from Hill Head, near Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, has asked for permission to leave the service on compassionate grounds.
He says his only solution is to leave his job and cash in his pension. That way he can pay off the huge debts arising from his first marriage court settlement, and because he will be unemployed he will not have to pay child support.
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