Child maintenance change that could affect nearly a million parents announced
Hundreds of thousands of parents who receive money from old partners for their children are preparing to see funds cut under new child care plans.
Approximately 440,000 parents are currently using Children’s Care Service (CMS) direct payment service to pay costs.
However, 310,000 parents use the ‘collection and payment’ service, which costs 4 percent for the buyer and a payment of 20 percent to the payment parent.
However, the new plans announced by the government will see all the parents to use a new collection and payment service with slightly different rates. This means that both a buyer’s payment is collected by 2 percent.
In practice, this means that the payment parent will pay £ 100 in a payment of 100 pounds, while the buyer will pay £ 98 to payment.
Child care is paid when parents are separated and a parent does not live with the child. This parent will pay other costs to help meet the child’s life expenses.
Parents who do not pay the amount of child care accepted may be deducted from their income by CMS or may be taken to court by the government organ.
Barones Sherlock Obe, Minister of Employment and Pension in Lords, said that changes have been announced that the changes have increased the number of effective care regulations between parents.
The data published by the department, only 60 percent of the parents who use the direct payment option report receive all the child care they owe, only 40 percent of these payments always receive these payments on time.
Sherlock adds that child care keeps about 120,000 children away from poverty a year, but he said, ız We need to do better and plan it, ”he said.
“Child care service is one of these rare things: a public service that most people will never need. But when necessary, it does a very important job to help children get their financial support.”
“Any family can be separated, but children should not fall or go to poverty due to a collapse in the relationships between parents. When this happens, they need child care service and the current system does not work.”
Sherlock also confirmed that the Ministry of Labor and Pension (DWP) plans to consult reforms on how child care is calculated. Parents who are currently paid and paid have various child care rates based on weekly income.
