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New report: The Single Parent Debt Trap
Posted 8 February 2021
New report shows single parents more likely to experience problem debt and to live in persistent poverty. Many forced to go without food to make repayments.
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Read the latest news on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
Gingerbread and Surviving Economic Abuse respond to latest figures on CMS during Covid-19 pandemic
Posted 1 October 2020
Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) released yesterday highlights the impact of Covid-19 on the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). The data shows: An increase in compliance on CMS payments – albeit, driven entirely...
Data released today from Mumsnet and Gingerbread show stark findings on CMS
Posted 17 September 2020
Findings of a new survey released today by Mumsnet and Gingerbread on the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) show: 86% say the CMS has allowed their ex to financially control or abuse them post-separation Nine out of ten...
Gingerbread supports legal action against the DWP to address critical failings of the Child Maintenance Service
Posted 24 June 2020
Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, is partnering with Mumsnet and the Good Law Project (GLP) to support four women who have sent a Letter Before Claim to notify the Department for Work and...
Gingerbread calls on the Government to support single parents where child maintenance payments are stopped or reduced
Posted 9 April 2020
Gingerbread, the charity that supports single parent families, is aware that due to the COVID-19 crisis the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will be allowing parents who pay child maintenance to stop or reduce...
Gingerbread calls on the new government to tackle the poverty epidemic among single parent families
Posted 16 December 2019
As the new Conservative government is announced, Gingerbread calls for urgent action to reduce poverty among single parent families through policies that improve living standards for the 1 in 4 UK families headed by single...
Gingerbread welcome SSAC’s call for social security strategy for separated parents
Posted 23 October 2019
Joe Richardson, Research and Policy Officer at Gingerbread, responds: “We welcome the focus of the SSAC’s report, which looks at how to alleviate the financial, emotional and psychological hardships that separated parents and their children can...
Government U-turn on child maintenance avoidance is “welcome but not enough”
Posted 12 July 2018
The government’s new child maintenance strategy shows it is listening to the concerns raised by Gingerbread and single parents,[1] but still leaves question marks as to whether the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is fit for...Notes [1] Gingerbread’s response to the DWP’s consultation. [2] Child maintenance avoidance describes when a paying parent minimises their declared income, which is used to calculate maintenance owed, thereby paying far less than they can afford. [3] Parents...
Centenary report shows more single parents working, yet poverty still rising
Posted 21 February 2018
Our new report, One in four: single parent families in the UK, has been released to mark 100 years of Gingerbread’s work. In the centenary report, we profile single parents in the UK today and how...
“Children Deserve More” – Child Maintenance Service loopholes deny children the support they deserve
Posted 26 June 2017
Gingerbread’s new report examines loopholes in the child maintenance system The child maintenance system is failing to ensure children receive the appropriate level of support they are entitled to, according to a new report by Gingerbread. ‘Children...
Gingerbread welcomes Work and Pensions Select Committee findings on child maintenance
Posted 2 May 2017
New findings chime with Gingerbread’s analysis of problems in the child maintenance system Gingerbread welcomes the findings in the Work and Pensions select committee’s new report on the failings of the current child maintenance system. [1] The...