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DWP seeks views on modernisation of Child Maintenance Service
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has opened a consultation seeking views on a number of proposed legislative changes aimed at modernising and improving the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). The proposals in the consultation seek to strengthen the current CMS, which was introduced during 2012. This consultation is open to voluntary and community sector organisations, as well as CMS customers and members of the general public. Although the consultation applies to England, Wales and Scotland, the DWP nevertheless welcomes comments from across the UK. The consultation closes 6 August 2021.
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The proposals would enable:
- unearned income information held by HMRC to be included in CMS calculations alongside paying parents’ earned income
- evidential requirements for self-employed parents to be eased where a change that has breached the income tolerance has been reported
- small volumes of low value debt to be extinguished where the value of the debt is substantially less than the cost of collecting it
- arrears to be extinguished where child maintenance has been deducted from a parent’s earnings where their employer has gone into administration and the DWP is unable to recover the outstanding arrears from the trustee handling the companies’ insolvency
- all CMS notifications to be sent, received and accessed digitally
- the following organisations to provide information when requested to do so in a timely manner: private pension providers, academy proprietors, the Motor Insurers’ Bureau and all types of companies that offer, promote or sell investment management services or facilitate share trading
The consultation webpage can be found here.
