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CHILDREN are being put at risk, charities said yesterday, as coalition ministers prepared to launch their latest cash-cow yesterday — creaming off the top of child support payments.
As the Star reported yesterday, separated parents now face a £20 application fee to seek help from the coalition’s new Child Maintenance Service in negotiating payments from an absent parent.
But the up-front fee is not all. Next month the agency will begin charging resident parents a 4 per cent commission on their children’s maintenance payments while the non-resident parent will themselves face an extra 20 per cent levy on top of their payments.
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
