What Is The Child Maintenance Service (CMS)?

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What Is The Child Maintenance Service (CMS)?

It’s what used to be called the CSA. It assesses and collects child maintenance in England and Wales, some of … Read More

It’s what used to be called the CSA. It assesses and collects child maintenance in England and Wales, some of the time…

It seems to have gone out of fashion to complain about the Child Maintenance Service… Maybe there are just too many other crises competing for our attention! It is certainly not because the CMS is no longer controversial…

A report in September 2022 found that 37% of parents in the UK with child maintenance obligations failed to pay any maintenance whatsoever, and a further 20% paid less than 20% of the sums due. As the CEO of the charity Gingerbread put it: “Child maintenance simply cannot be seen as optional”.

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