Petition Remove the discretion of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to write off debts

The Government should remove the discretion that the CMS has to write off child maintenance debts. All debts must be paid and not written off. Parents should not be able to dodge maintenance payments. It’s entirely unacceptable.

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Non-paying parents should not be protected like this and should be responsible for contributing to the financial side of raising their children.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

34 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 34 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 12 April 2024
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