Rejected petition Change the rules surrounding child maintenance payments.

Non residents parents are being financially penalised by having to pay extra monies if they receive 'benefits in kind' such as a company car, fuel allowance or private medical care from their employer. This is fundamentally unfair and unethical, and puts extra pressure on the non resident parent.

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Under previous schemes with the child Support Agency non resident parents would be expected to pay 20% of Net pay, under the new scheme with the Child Maintenance Service they are expected to pay 16% of Gross taxable income, so a company car and fuel allowance of for example £9000 per annum will see a non resident parent pay an additional £1'440 per annum without ever seeing additional pay in their pay.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/168993

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Date submitted 3 March 2017
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