Submitted on Monday 12th August 2019
Rejected on Friday 23rd August 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Increase child maintenance service powers to investigate the self employed
Self employed people can hide earnings by dealing with cash in hand jobs and holding funds in their business accounts. By default the CMS won't investigate all associated accounts be it business or personal and often don't have the necessary powers to anyway to gather a true picture of income
Children and full time carers are going without while irresponsible parents hide their true earnings. It should be illegal for individuals to do this and the CMS should have the powers and resource to do this from the offset for all self employed individuals. Full powers to look at recent and historic bank accounts, credit cards etc both personal and business in order to see a true account of earnings. Only then will the system be fair to struggling children and full time mothers and carers
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the UK Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
CMS officers already have investigating powers, we aren't sure what additional powers you'd like them to be given.
You can find out more about their powers here:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/336682/visits-by-investigating-officer.pdf
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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