Mumsnet and single parent charity Gingerbread are teaming up to provide specialist advice on Child Maintenance. You may have already seen this week that Mumsnet, Gingerbread and the Good Law Project are supporting a legal action against the DWP about the Child Maintenance Service’s failure to collect payments.
Gingerbread’s helpline team will answer questions and advise on the options available to you via the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).
The clinic will take place on this thread in the form of a Q&A session from today, Friday 26 June. It will cover issues like:
- Information on entitlement to child maintenance
- Information and advice on different options for making child support arrangements
- Information on how to claim child support through the statutory Child Maintenance Service (CMS) and what to expect from the CMS
- Information on how child maintenance is calculated and what income and capital is taken into account.
- Information on how child maintenance affects benefits payments
- Advice on challenging an incorrect decision
- Advice on what you can do if the child maintenance is not being paid
About Gingerbread
The Gingerbread Helpline is a well established advice line for single parents with primary or shared care of children. We provide advice, information and signposting are on a broad range of issues affecting single parents including: welfare benefits; child maintenance; family law; and coronavirus related issues. However, the Helpline is unable to undertake casework or representations.
Important:
Gingerbread Advisers endeavour to provide accurate and up to date advice on Child Maintenance, however this advice is for general guidance on your rights and responsibilities only and is not legal advice. If you need more details on your rights or legal advice about what action to take, please contact a specialist adviser or solicitor.
Support Gingerbread with the legal case:
Gingerbread are a small charity with limited resources, any contribution you can make to support the costs of supporting this case would be much appreciated. You can donate at gingerbread.charitycheckout.co.uk/cf/fixthecms
You can also help by raising awareness about the case via the following channels –
- Showing your support social media using #FixTheCMS hashtag
- Sharing our CMS content across the own networks to build momentum around the campaign
- Writing to your local MP to suggest they offer their support via our Do Gooder campaign which can be accessed via www.gingerbread.org.uk/FixtheCMS
- Follow @gingerbread on twitter - @gingerbreadcharity on Instagram, @Gingerbread on Facebook for all the latest updates on the campaign, help us to raise awareness throughout the campaign by sharing our tweets and social posts across your networks too.
- Pledge your support for the #FixTheCMS case here: www.gingerbread.org.uk/fixthecms-pledge/
For more information on how you can support, please visit www.gingerbread.org.uk/FixtheCMS
post edited to add another supporter link for the #FixtheCMS campaign