{"id":87307,"date":"2017-12-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f16399f44e82d342863da3e5a5e968e9"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:30:00","slug":"press-release-child-maintenance-consultation-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87307","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Child maintenance consultation launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The government is asking for views on options to give the Child Maintenance Service (<abbr title=\"Child Maintenance Service\">CMS<\/abbr>) stronger compliance, collection and enforcement methods to make sure parents are meeting their responsibilities towards their children.<\/p>\n<p>The Child Maintenance Service was established in 2012 to replace the old Child Support Agency (<abbr title=\"Child Support Agency\">CSA<\/abbr>). Steps have already been taken to strengthen the action taken against parents who don\u2019t pay the child maintenance they owe, including consulting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/clampdown-on-child-maintenance-cheats\">seizing unpaid maintenance from joint bank accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The consultation proposals today include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>removing passports \u2013 parents who persistently do not pay the child maintenance they owe could face being banned from holding or obtaining a UK passport for up to 2 years<\/li>\n<li>improved calculations \u2013 income from capital, foreign income, notional income from assets and unearned income could all be taken into account when the <abbr title=\"Child Maintenance Service\">CMS<\/abbr> works out how much maintenance a parent owes<\/li>\n<li>deductions from business accounts \u2013 the <abbr title=\"Child Maintenance Service\">CMS<\/abbr> could seize funds from sole trader and partnership accounts to pay off a parent\u2019s unpaid maintenance bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The consultation also outlines proposals to address historic unpaid child maintenance built up under the old <abbr title=\"Child Support Agency\">CSA<\/abbr>, and options for writing it off. New analysis shows that it would cost the government \u00a31.5 billion to collect the debt, most of which is owed on <abbr title=\"Child Support Agency\">CSA<\/abbr> cases where the children are now adults.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance Caroline Dinenage said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our priority is to make sure parents meet their responsibilities to their children so we have been replacing the old <abbr title=\"Child Support Agency\">CSA<\/abbr> \u2013 which failed children over the decades \u2013 with a new system that is already working better for families. But we need to go further to ensure children get the support they need. That\u2019s why we are consulting on a range of options, including tougher powers against parents who do not pay the child maintenance they owe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Read today\u2019s consultation \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/child-maintenance-a-new-compliance-and-arrears-strategy\">Child Maintenance: a new compliance and arrears strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The consultation opened on 14 December 2017 and closes on 8 February 2018.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"contact-press-office\">Contact Press Office<\/h2>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_827\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press Office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Caxton House<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTothill Street<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">London<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SW1H 9NA<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">London Press Office (national media and London area enquiries only \u2013 not questions about personal claims)<\/span><br \/>\n              020 3267 5144\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out-of-hours (journalists only)<\/span><br \/>\n              076 59 108 883\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">England and Wales (local media enquiries)<\/span><br \/>\n              029 20 586 then 097 or 098 or 099\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Scotland (local media enquiries)<\/span><br \/>\n              0131 310 1122\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/dwppressoffice\">www.twitter.com\/dwppressoffice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Facebook \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dwp\">www.facebook.com\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dwp\">www.linkedin.com\/company\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>YouTube \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwp\">www.youtube.com\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough new powers to help tackle child maintenance arrears are being proposed in a consultation that launched today (14 December 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}