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 Child Maintenance Service Collect and Pay Fees

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Did you know parents that pay child maintenance through the Child Maintenance Service Collect and Pay service are charged a 20 percent fee, none of which goes to the children, that is wrong. Stop the fee, stop it now. Roughly 90 per cent of all CMS cases involve a man paying his ex female partner child maintenance. Where the CMS use the Collect and Pay method, the paying parent is charged a 20% fee. The receiving parent is also charged a fee, but that is set at 4%. There is a clear discrimination here. 90 per cent paying are male and are charged 20% 90 per cent of people receiving are female, and are charged 4% This is therefore a form of discrimination. It is of no consequence that 10% of payers on collect and pay are female. What is important is that the majority of payers are male and they pay 20%, where as the majority receiving are female, yet they pay 4%. The fee for collect and pay needs to be abolished, or at least to be equal.

Remember, none of the fees reach the child.

This is How Much CMS Make From Parents So the paying person is paying £120 per week. The receiving parent only receives £96. The Child Maintenance Service keeps £24. Over 1 year (52 weeks), the CMS gross profit is £1248. Our Advice CMS procedure is that after 6 months of being on Collect and pay, the paying parent may swop to Direct Pay, but before that happens they have to pay a further 6 payments by direct debit. We suggest paying parents contact the CMS, at the 6 month point and ask to go to Direct pay. Its better to pay a further 6 months in fees, then to reject the move to direct debit, only to still, pay six months of direct debit at a later date. We also advise that paying parents complain to the CMS about indirect sexual discrimination in relation to how the fees are applied. Should anyone be able to take this further by legal means, please get in touch. Links

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