Submitted on Friday 10th October 2025
Rejected on Monday 17th November 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reform Child Maintenance Service to reflect real care, actual costs and fairness
Reform the CMS so payments reflect real care and actual needs. Include ALL childcare time;
Base payments real age-related costs;
Recognise extra needs; i.e. medical/neurodevelopmental conditions;
Factor in travel costs;
Apply fair caps to keep payments transparent, balanced, and child-centred.
The CMS system is outdated and unfair. It ignores daytime care, travel costs, and additional needs, focusing only on income and overnight stays. This punishes involved parents and creates huge disparities between similar families. Reform is needed so payments reflect real care, shared responsibility, and the true cost of raising children, ensuring fairness and stability for both households.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for similar action: "Require child maintenance payments to increase by inflation & review enforcement" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/741254
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