Child Maintenance Scandal

Exposing the Child Maintenance Scandal through independent news, evidence and guidance. Helping people understand CMS rules, legal procedures and their rights.

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

Ask your MP - If CMS can use Ai to flag “non-compliance”, why can’t it use Ai to check whether the calculation is right in the first place?
#ChildMaintenanceScandal #ChildMaintenance #CMS #CSA #DWP #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #Accountability #GovernmentIT

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

🚨 HMRC computer flaw dating back to 2021

HMRC is manually reviewing 107,000 tax calculations due to another computer bug

If HMRC systems can get calculations wrong, then that effects Child Maintenance assessments!

https://t.co/NeMz3onb4A

#CMS #HMRC #ChildMaintenanceScandal

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@ArturNadol7566 Have you ever looked into the Child Maintenance Scandal?
Another faulty Computer System, people being sent fictitious debts, imprisonment and some taking their own life.

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

Following concerns about the Child Maintenance Service, MSP Steven Bonnar has lodged Motion S7M-00974 — already gaining cross-party support.

If CMS has failed you, contact your MSP and give them the evidence.

🏴 England: ask your MP to do the same.

#ChildMaintenanceScandal

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As Senior Civil Servant, Simon Hunter could potentially face prosecution for offences such as misconduct in public office or, gross negligence manslaughter.
That means wilfully neglect their duty to such a degree that it amounts to an abuse of the public's trust.
Thoughts?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

'The new Post Office scandal': Fathers facing inflated demands from the Child Maintenance Service have been plunged into poverty and even taken their own lives. So why does the agency's £125k-a-year boss sound so bumptiously dismissive? https://t.co/iChNACojt4

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

Follow 'Child Maintenance Scandal' to hear how he won against a CMS Liability Order hearing!

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'I completely lost the plot at one point.'

Campaigner for Reform of the Child Maintenance Service, Noel Wilcox, and victim of the service, John Hamond, reveal how thousands of parents have been allegedly overcharged on maintenance payments.

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@GBNEWS In total he won 3 cases. A tribunal case in 2012. The CSA case closed in 2013.
7 years later the CMS use erroneous data to seize £19,269.09 of which his ex-partner knew nothing about. The CMS later conceded and signed a court order.
Then they went for a Liability Order and lost

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

The DWP's latest post on the CMS statistics
but they are not very good with numbers - The truth is
40,000 were in households with a statutory CMS arrangement, while 80,000 were private arrangements.

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@GBNEWS Nana Akua has clearly experience the other side, but as
Michelle Counley said:
“This is a system that fails parents, it fails children, it does not deliver what it is supposed to deliver.”
As @noel_willcox said, money i s being paid but not forwarded to receiving parents.

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@brightonargus Sadly this is a regular occurrence that needs to stop. However, recent exposure from the MSM is slowly starting to take affect.

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@Justine_Roberts Michelle Counley of NACSA said,
“This is a system that fails parents, it fails children, it does not deliver what it is supposed to deliver.”
The NAO recorded 24,500 case in one year where paying parents had paid, but the CMS had not forwarded those payments to receiving parents

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@noel_willcox Simon Hunter is deluded if he thinks “A lot of our customers are highly satisfied".
If he can't get that data correct then what else is wrong?
61% Dissatisfied

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Watch this Daily Mail video where a teacher describes his 5-year battle with the CMS after nearly £20,000 was taken for money he did not owe.

When the system gets it wrong, the consequences can be devastating.

https://t.co/Tyopm2Wc7c

#ChildMaintenanceScandal #CMS #CSA

[Both Parents Matter @BothParentsMtr]

BBC Panorama helped bring the experiences of parents affected by the CMS into the national spotlight — but this is only the beginning.

Coverage is only valuable if it leads to action.

#BothParentsMatter #ChildMaintenance #CMS #PayingParents #TimeForChange

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@BothParentsMtr BBC Online revealed two cases where nearly £20k was taken in error, yet Panorama failed to scrutinise arrears figures presented as fact.

A FOI revealed 24,500 cases in one year where paying parents had paid, but CMS failed to pass the money on to receiving parents.

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

🚨 This is BIGGER than the Post Office scandal

The Daily Mail investigates the Director of the CMS

Read the full article here 👇
https://t.co/WaEzkggYik

Follow @CMScandal_UK for more evidence and developments.

#ChildMaintenance #CMS #CSA #ChildMaintenanceScandal

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@BBCNews The BBC reports more than 1,400 complaints in just the first three months of 2026.

But we have evidence of serious formal complaints which were submitted by solicitors being dismissed or left unanswered by the CMS.

#CMS #ChildMaintenanceScandal #CSA

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

@BBCNews The CMS is failing receiving parents AND paying parents ...and ultimately children suffer.

This should never be about mothers v fathers. The system itself is failing and needs scrutiny.

Follow @CMScandal_UK as we expose the wider #ChildMaintenanceScandal.

#CMS #CSA

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

Is the CMS protecting one child by pushing another into poverty?

Child maintenance should protect children — all children.

This isn't mothers v fathers. It's about whether the system is fair to every child it affects.

What do you think?

#ChildMaintenanceScandal #CMS #CSA

[Child Maintenance Scandal @CMScandal_UK]

THE SILENCE IS OVER.
The media blackout on the Child Maintenance Scandal is over as major news channels report on the Concerns of the CMS including:
BBC News. GB News. Daily Mail. Daily Express.
#ChildMaintenanceScandal #ChildMaintenanceService #CMS #DWP #ChildMaintenance