Child Maintenance News Archive

DWP child maintenance CMS not 'adequate' update and 'urgent action' - key details

DWP child maintenance CMS 'urgent action' update as it makes not 'adequate' admission

DWP confirms changes to improve Child Maintenance Service for users

DWP explains 'enforcement powers' in new update as it looks at changes to CMS 'charges'

DWP confirms 7 strict CMS powers - from passport disqualifaction to bank account raids

DWP explains HMRC child maintenance CMS rules for 1 key group - new update

DWP 4 major changes to 'improve' Child Maintenance Service - key details

DWP confirms 4 key changes to 'improve' CMS Child Maintenance Service

DWP confirms new 15% income rule for Child Maintenance

DWP confirms major Child Maintenance Service changes affecting payment calculations

Child maintenance CMS update as DWP told to launch tough new powers

Gingerbread responds to BBC Panorama investigation into the Child Maintenance Service

The single parent charity says the Panorama findings reflect what its helpline hears every day, pointing to £790m in unpaid arrears and research suggesting effective child maintenance could cut child poverty for single parent families by a quarter.

Parents under pressure: BBC Panorama investigates the Child Maintenance Service

Panorama hears from parents on both sides of the service, from a mother relying on food banks while owed thousands to a father wrongly billed for a child that was not his. CMS director Simon Hunter apologises for mistakes that made life difficult for customers.

Parents pushed to breaking point by Child Maintenance Service, BBC told

Woman's Hour | Quadruple gold medallist Amy Hunt, Charlotte Church, Child maintenance, Comedian Lucy Porter

'I used food banks while my ex owed thousands in child support'

Gingerbread’s response to recent press coverage on the CMS

Thousands of parents ‘overcharged’ child maintenance payments worth £4.3million – with some ‘driven to suicide’

Parents ‘driven to suicide’ by wrong orders to pay child maintenance

Ex-Prem ace Wes Morgan ‘hid assets and income to avoid paying two mums child support’

Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to March 2026

Quarterly statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to March 2026.

Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Service: Data to March 2026

This provides an overview of the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland and contains information up to the quarter ending March 2026.

Reforming the Child Maintenance Service: Lords Public Services Committee report

DWP wrongly 'take £20,000' from dad's bank account after child maintenance error

'They took £20,000 I didn't owe': the parents overcharged by the Child Maintenance Service

BBC News investigates parents pursued for child maintenance they did not owe, including one who had £20,000 taken in error.

'They took £20,000 I didn't owe': Parents hit by child maintenance errors

‘My wife had an affair then took my daughter to the US – but I still have to pay child maintenance’

Why should I continue to pay full child maintenance for a kid I barely see?

Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to December 2025

Quarterly statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to December 2025.

Dad's shocking attempt to cheat DNA test and squirm out of child maintenance bills

Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Service: Data to December 2025

This provides an overview of the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland and contains information up to the quarter ending December 2025.

'I have had to delay child maintenance': Bin worker forced to cut back after year of reduced pay

Child maintenance update from the DWP: what you need to know

DWP update after local MP raises questions on child maintenance service

Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Service: Data to September 2025

This provides an overview of the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland and contains information up to the quarter ending September 2025.

Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to September 2025

Quarterly statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to September 2025.

Child maintenance: client funds account 2024 to 2025

Account for the client funds relating to the 1993, 2003 and 2012 statutory child maintenance schemes for the year 2024 to 2025.

Ex-Manchester City star and Brazil striker Jo arrested for the FOURTH time over unpaid child maintenance

Changes to Child Maintenance could lift 20,000 Scots children out of poverty

Gingerbread hands in Child Maintenance open letter to the Department for Work and Pensions

Extensive improvements to the Child Maintenance Service are essential to ensure children in separated families stay out of poverty Lords Committee