This petition was submitted during the 2015–2017 Conservative government

Petition Remove the tax on child support for victims of domestic violence.

The 4 per cent Child Maintenance Service (CMS) collection fee presents real difficulties, particularly for domestic abuse victims.

For victims, a family-based arrangement is mostly impossible to arrange and using the CMS may be the only safe way for victims of domestic abuse to claim support.

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We are calling on the UK Government to protect, not punish victims of domestic violence by removing the 4% collection charge for victim-survivors.

More background information here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/child-maintenance-service-single-mother-dwp-snp-child-support-agency-a7505746.html

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/theresa-urged-abolish-cruel-domestic-9446041

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14961377.Charge_is____cruel____tax_on_abuse_survivors/

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