Remove the tax on child support for victims of domestic violence.

Closed 1,561 signatures

What the petition asks

The 4 per cent Child Maintenance Service (CMS) collection fee presents real difficulties, particularly for domestic abuse victims.

For victims, a family-based arrangement is mostly impossible to arrange and using the CMS may be the only safe way for victims of domestic abuse to claim support.

We are calling on the UK Government to protect, not punish victims of domestic violence by removing the 4% collection charge for victim-survivors.

More background information here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/child-maintenance-service-single-mother-dwp-snp-child-support-agency-a7505746.html

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/theresa-urged-abolish-cruel-domestic-9446041

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14961377.Charge_is____cruel____tax_on_abuse_survivors/

Timeline

20 Jan 2017	Petition opened for signatures
2 May 2017	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 1,561

Status Closed

Opened 20 Jan 2017

Closed 2 May 2017

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