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Single parents forced to pay £7million in child maintenance fees despite no-show payments

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child maintenance fees. A single parent has to pay a £20 admin charge for every payment - even if the money never arrives from their ex-partner, The Mirror reports.

The admin charges are taken by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) from both partners when they use the scheme. Charities are now calling for the government's Department for Work and Pensions to scrap the fees as it could be pushing many struggling families into poverty.It comes as figures released today show single parents using the CMS are collectively owed £408.3million from absent parents - money it has failed to collect.The figures also show 100,900 children are not receiving the child maintenance owed to them through ‘Collect and Pay’ and 42,000 are not paying any of the.

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