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Petition · Department for Work and Pensions

Take stronger measures to enforce payment of child maintenance arrears.

Closed 132 signatures

What the petition asks

Take a stronger stance on non-paying parents related to Child maintenance and enforce more stringent measures to ensure they not only pay the regular payments due but clear any child maintenance arrears, especially when there's evidence the non paying parents can afford to do so.
Of the Child Maintenance payments arranged through the Collect and Pay service, the total unpaid was £27.8 million. The government have the power to enforce collection but we think they aren't doing this adequately.

Timeline

23 Oct 2025 Petition opened for signatures
23 Apr 2026 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 132
Status Closed
Department Department for Work and Pensions
Opened 23 Oct 2025
Closed 23 Apr 2026

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 27 Jul 2026.