(Bloomberg) -- Deadbeat parents left a trail of hardship in 2015.
Less than half of parents holding child custody -- 43.5 percent -- received the full amount of child support due that year, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data. Meanwhile, three in 10 custodial parents received no payment at all in 2015 - the highest amount since at least 1993.
The data suggest mothers carried the burden with the poverty rate of custodial mothers significantly higher than those of fathers with custody, 29.2 percent versus 16.7 percent.
Of the 1.6 million custodial parents with incomes below the poverty line, just 39.2 percent received full payments.
While the aggregate amount of child support due in 2015 totaled a staggering $33.7 billion, it was $14 billion lower than in 2003.
To contact the reporter on this story: Vincent Del Giudice in Denver at vdelgiudice@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Alex Tanzi at atanzi@bloomberg.net, Chris Middleton
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