Submitted on Friday 16th May 2025
Rejected on Friday 30th May 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Immediate review of the Child Maintenance Service
Review, reform and update the way the Child Maintenance Service assesses, rewards, and monitors child maintenance, to eliminate the current loopholes and prevent the financial burden being placed onto the resident parent
The current CMS model allows absent parents to hide income, evade monitoring, escape financial responsibility, and refuse to pay with minimal and/ or unacceptably late penalty. This not only forces the financial burden onto the resident parent and allows a dynamic of financial abuse, it disadvantages children and fails to protect them. The current system is flawed, outdated and is not fit for purpose, and is failing thousands of the parents and children it is meant to assist
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Review the child maintenance service
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702615
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