After graduating from university I was hired within a week for a finance job with a child support agency. I applied to a non-specific government job posting and didn't know until the interview that I'd be working with the child support agency.

At first it was fine because I just did clerical work and actually helped return overpayments to clients. However, I got promoted and now I have to add support arrears to cases - both regular support and special expenses. I am regularly forced to add support arrears that I believe to me unlawful or morally wrong by my superiors. I have raised the issue multiple times that I do not feel comfortable adding these arrears as many of them are frivolous or outside of the scope of legislation. The response of my managers is that we need to add as much as possible, bend the rules for the people who receive support (mainly mothers) and if the support payers (mainly fathers) have problems with this they can go back to court. My fellow employees have zero sympathy for the fathers and the struggles they go through or the fact that court is expensive and many of these fathers absolutely cannot afford the support let alone thousands in frivolous special expenses claims.

The job market in my city is highly competitive and I cant find anything that pays as much as this. But the psychological toll of being forced to do things that make me sick is unbearable. I have thought about blowing the whistle but I figure it would somehow get justified and swept under the rug as these directives come from very high in the agency. I also know that if I did they would know it is me because I have raised that what we are doing is wrong many times before.