Up to 100,000 kids miss out on maintenance after abuse of system during lockdown
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mirror.co.ukThe parents of at least 100,000 children are not getting cash from ex-partners to look after them. The problem has spiralled during the lockdown and the Department of Work and Pensions is now refusing to take calls from desperate mums entitled to child maintenance payments.
Some have even told us they are starving themselves to feed their children. Officials have let non-resident parents cut or stop their payments, without providing any evidence they are earning less.
And shockingly, more than half of parents who receive child maintenance have been victims of domestic abuse. Since lockdown began, the number of calls made to single parent charity Gingerbread’s helpline have rocketed 130 per cent.
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