Change the way the CMS operate

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

I want a review into how the CMS operate. They should work out the payments based on Net pay as opposed to Gross pay.
Household incomes on both sides need to be considered.
Placing non resident parents in fictitious arrears needs to be made illegal

Thousands of separated parents (mainly fathers) are being pushed to financial ruin from the CMS and in the worst cases, suicide.
The current CMS operating procedures are having a severe impact on the paying parents mental health as well as plunging them into debt. Enforcing fictitious arrears on parents and charging interest on those payments with little or no hope of ever getting out of them. The CMS shouldn’t be allowed to profit off of the earnings of paying parents.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for the same action:

Change child maintenance calculations from gross annual earnings to Net earnings:
Change child maintenance calculations from gross annual earnings to Net earnings

Timeline

21 Sep 2023	Petition opened for signatures
28 Sep 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 Sep 2023

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