FNF Press Release - Public Accounts Committee Damning of Child Maintenance Service (CMS)
FNF Press Release - Wedneday | 22 | June 2022
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) compares Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to the discredited Child Support Agency (CSA)
FNF – both parents matter agree with the Committees recommendations for:
• A review of affordability and payment thresholds
• Clear cross-government governance for separated families
• Review of CM interacts with wider welfare issues
• Gain a better understanding of users of CMS
• Improved understanding of CMS being ‘played’ including the withholding of access to children
• Need for affordable assessments – that will reduce fraud so the real culprits can be dealt with
• Proactive approach to fraud (we agree, so long as the formula is affordable and fair)
• Fresh consideration of write-off of unaffordable debts
• A review of affordability and payment thresholds
We have long campaigned on the inadequacy of the systems for child maintenance. The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has published its report on Child Maintenance following their investigations,
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