One in 11 families who currently get child support payments in England
will lose out in a major shake-up of the system, government analysis
suggests.
Ministers want to charge people to use a new maintenance service to encourage them to make their own arrangements. But government analysis suggested 100,000 families were unlikely to do so and could lose child support payments as a result.
The government insisted more people will benefit from its changes overall.
Single parent charity Gingerbread, which has highlighted the
government's own calculations, estimated that knocking those 100,000
families out of the system would result in the loss of £26m in child
support.
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