Reform Child Maintainance Service method of calculating payments

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The method that the Child Maintainance Service uses to calculate how much non residential parent pays in maintenance is unfair and unjustified.

Change to use the non residential parents NET income not including bonuses or overtime.
Using Gross income means that the non residential parent is expected to pay a percentage of money that has already been paid to HMRC through income tax.
Bonuses are often not regular or one offs that should not be included.
A non residential parents overtime pay should not be included.
Contact cost should be deducted from the maintenance payments.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The Child Maintenance Service allows for contact costs to be consider as part of a special expenses variance. You can find out more information here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/336663/variations-explained-paying.pdf

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

3 Jun 2019	Petition opened for signatures
2 Jul 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 2 Jul 2019

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