Noel Willcox: Child Maintenance Service Used Artificially Inflated Salary Figures to Chase Parents for Money They Do Not Owe

The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is using extreme powers to force parents to pay billions in “fabricated debts” they do not owe, according to a parents’ rights advocate. Speaking to NTD’s Lee Hall for the “British Thought Leaders” programme, Noel Willcox explained how the CMS had inherited an inflated figure of £3.8 billion in fabricated debts from its predecessor, the Child Support Agency (CSA), and is still using methods to inflate figures today. The agency then uses its massive enforcement powers to get parents to pay money they do not owe. The campaigner and political candidate for Reform UK said the CSA figures had been inflated by around 300 percent, with the agency using the “inflation technique” as a “lever” to “force a paying parent to come to them with whatever information that they wanted.”...