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The Child Maintenance and Enforcement
Commission: Updated 10 November 2011 The
CMEC (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission) have
updated their Contents:
Introduction
Choices available to parents
Child Maintenance Options – a new
information and support service
Child Support Agency
Enforcement: what happens when a
non-resident parent doesn’t pay?
Child maintenance and benefit claims
The future child maintenance
statutory scheme
Frequently asked questions Leaflets
available for your constituents
Here's what they say in the
introduction:
What
is this leaflet about?
Child
maintenance issues are likely to feature in most MPs’ postbags. We wanted to let
you know how the child maintenance system works, dispel some of the myths,
explain some recent changes, and give you details on who to contact when you
have a question or complaint.
What
is child maintenance?
Child
maintenance is regular, reliable financial support that helps towards the
child’s everyday living costs. The parent who does not have main day-to-day care
of the child pays child maintenance to the parent who does have main day-to-day
care. In some cases, this person can be a grandparent or guardian.
In
addition to regular child maintenance payments, parents can also choose to make
payments “in kind”. This is where the parent without the main day-to-day care
pays for things directly, such as clothing, bills or school costs.
Throughout this document, we refer to the parent with day-today care of the
child as the “parent with care” and the parent without day-to-day care as the
“non-resident parent.”
Want to read more of the leaflet? Click here.
an introduction to the child maintenance system
useful leaflet specifically for MPs and their staff. It is dated
July 2011.
'An introduction to the child maintenance system'.
It is here (PDF
404KB).
(Apologies for temporary glitch earlier today. Normal
service now resumed and links to the pdf restored)
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