Stop child maintenance payments being classed as a none deductible income.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Reclassify child maintenance payments as a deductible income so the parent receiving the child maintenance payment can either have the payments or the benefits but not both as it currently is.

This current situation is firstly unfair on all tax payers who have to foot the bill for the parent receiving the benefits along with child maintenance payments. The receiving parent should not be able to receive both.

Secondly, the parent paying the CM money, are over 90% males that have mostly not absconded but, desperately want to see their children are treated unfairly because their payments are not means tested. This means that no matter what outgoings they have it is not considered.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We think that this petition is similar:

Reform child maintenance and benefit calculations to be fair and prevent poverty
Reform child maintenance and benefit calculations to be fair and prevent poverty

Timeline

8 Aug 2020	Petition opened for signatures
3 Sep 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Department Department for Work and Pensions

Rejected 3 Sep 2020

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