
The CMS is meant to support children - we think that too often, it’s tearing families apart. We feel that many loving, active fathers are treated unfairly & that the CMS ignores shared parenting, fails to recognise time spent with children, & can create unaffordable debt that parents can’t dispute.
Pat McFadden
Work & Pensions Secretary
Reform Child Maintenance Service, strengthen processes to protect paying parent
Take stronger measures to enforce payment of child maintenance arrears.
Require child maintenance payments to increase by inflation & review enforcement
Review Child Maintenance Service to disincentivise parents withholding custody
Reform Child Maintenance calculation: include daytime care and actual costs
The CMS is meant to support children - we think that too often, it’s tearing families apart. We feel that many loving, active fathers are treated unfairly & that the CMS ignores shared parenting, fails to recognise time spent with children, & can create unaffordable debt that parents can’t dispute.
Reform Child Maintenance Service, strengthen processes to protect paying parent
Take stronger measures to enforce payment of child maintenance arrears.
Require child maintenance payments to increase by inflation & review enforcement
Review Child Maintenance Service to disincentivise parents withholding custody
Reform Child Maintenance calculation: include daytime care and actual costs