Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 31
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Child Maintenance Service plagued by issues of ineffective enforcement and unaffordable payments
Conclusion
In summary: Our inquiry has found a number of issues with the Child Maintenance Service that need to be addressed. Receiving parents continue to report great frustration at ineffective and slow enforcement. Paying parents have described distress and being pushed into poverty by the unaffordability of child maintenance payments. This harms the effectiveness of a system with an important role to play in tackling child poverty in separated families. (Paragraph 116) 50 Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 6 July 2023. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗