Immediate review of the Child Maintenance Service

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Review, reform and update the way the Child Maintenance Service assesses, rewards, and monitors child maintenance, to eliminate the current loopholes and prevent the financial burden being placed onto the resident parent

The current CMS model allows absent parents to hide income, evade monitoring, escape financial responsibility, and refuse to pay with minimal and/ or unacceptably late penalty. This not only forces the financial burden onto the resident parent and allows a dynamic of financial abuse, it disadvantages children and fails to protect them. The current system is flawed, outdated and is not fit for purpose, and is failing thousands of the parents and children it is meant to assist

Why it was rejected

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

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Review the child maintenance service
Review the child maintenance service

Timeline

16 May 2025	Petition opened for signatures
30 May 2025	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 30 May 2025

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