Child Maintenance & Furlough

Danijordi88

Good Morning All, 
I am looking for advice based on a receiving parent basis from using Child Maintenance Options (CMO). Bare with me it’s lengthy. 
If you have gone down this road you will be aware (or maybe not) that as a paying payment if your wage changes either side of 25% over a period of time you can request a mandatory reconsideration of circumstance for payments requested over an annual basis. This is with the 2012 Child Maintenance Government Scheme as a suitable family based arrangement couldn’t be made. In my situation, the paying parent has continually tried to find a way to get out of what he was meant to be paying. 

Fortunately for him the Furlough Scheme played right into his hands. 

Having been furloughed for 6 months, the paying parent has managed to have his mandatory review request successfully placed (my schedule runs Aug-Aug). The scheduled last for a year from review. However, I’m aware the parent has gone back to work now thus taking his wage back to normal. Therefore, being able to have his payments substantially reduced across the next year as a result of him being furloughed at the time of review, a reduction by nearly £100.00 a month on an already poor payment amount anyway. 

Other people must have experienced this too. I currently have an appeal lodged which I plan on taking to hearing. The CMO system has been flawed by impact of temporary furlough due to the annual decisions based on temporary circumstances seeing rightful payments incorrectly calculated. So people need to be aware. As CMO will not advise you of this. 

Has anyone else had a similar situation? I’m curious whilst I build my appeal case to push CMO to review again based on direct employer information. 

Comms69

Danijordi88 said:

Good Morning All, 
I am looking for advice based on a receiving parent basis from using Child Maintenance Options (CMO). Bare with me it’s lengthy. 
If you have gone down this road you will be aware (or maybe not) that as a paying payment if your wage changes either side of 25% over a period of time you can request a mandatory reconsideration of circumstance for payments requested over an annual basis. This is with the 2012 Child Maintenance Government Scheme as a suitable family based arrangement couldn’t be made. In my situation, the paying parent has continually tried to find a way to get out of what he was meant to be paying. 

Fortunately for him the Furlough Scheme played right into his hands. 

Having been furloughed for 6 months, the paying parent has managed to have his mandatory review request successfully placed (my schedule runs Aug-Aug). The scheduled last for a year from review. However, I’m aware the parent has gone back to work now thus taking his wage back to normal. Therefore, being able to have his payments substantially reduced across the next year as a result of him being furloughed at the time of review, a reduction by nearly £100.00 a month on an already poor payment amount anyway. 

Other people must have experienced this too. I currently have an appeal lodged which I plan on taking to hearing. The CMO system has been flawed by impact of temporary furlough due to the annual decisions based on temporary circumstances seeing rightful payments incorrectly calculated. So people need to be aware. As CMO will not advise you of this. 

Has anyone else had a similar situation? I’m curious whilst I build my appeal case to push CMO to review again based on direct employer information. 

The reduction is  against a set percentage, against the gross amount. So if he dropped down to 75% of his usual wages, and that is a reduction of £100, then he must normally pay £400?