This is the new department taking over from the child Support Agency, CMEC have been given more powers that basically treat fathers worse than terrorists, in fact terrorists have more rights than divorced fathers, plus the fact that most of the Government Ministers want Child Maintenance to be a statutory tax on father hood ( see Sexist Ministers). The powers that have been given to this new CMEC will create a new Non Resident Parent Poverty and we will see in the very near future that Non Resident Parents ( divorced fathers that is) being driven into the ground, thus causing them to lose their job which in turn will mean losing their homes their car, their second families if they have one and most scary of all their lives.

 We will then like to see how this Government that will create all this then reduce this so called child poverty by 2010. One CMEC have abused their powers and flexed their muscles to the point where the Non Resident parent has been driven to the point of Poverty himself how will the Government then reduce Child Poverty?

 

 The New Laws for CMEC

New Laws but all can be contested

 

 The new rate of child maintenance will be 12% for one child, 16% for two and 19% for three or more. For most of  you this may look as though the CSA are being a bit more fairer towards the non resident parent.

 

 Well unfortunately the Government have used yet another sneaky and unlawful technique in more ways that one with the new CMEC. The new figures 12, 16 and 19% of your income is actually Gross wage instead of Net, they will NOT take into consideration your national insurance tax or pension contributions which actually means that you will be paying more. This will probably mean that most non resident parents will end up having to take on second jobs just to survive and to pay normal household bills, however the government have compensated for this by adding on an extra 9%, 12% and 15% on TOP of the 12, 16 and 19% if your gross earnings go over the £800 per week mark.

 

 Most of you will think that there is no way most of us will exceed that limit, however lets not forget it is Gross not net, that is the amount before tax, national insurance or pension contributions so this figure if you take on a second job can be exceeded quite easily.

  As most of us now are PAYE ( pay as you earn) the CMEC can now go direct to the Inland Revenue to find out what your tax earnings are so they will be able to calculate you earnings from there, we must remind most of you that the CSA/CMEC buildings are incorporated now in with Her Majesty’s Customs and Revenue so they can communicate direct to get your total earnings. So if you need to get a second job and you exceed the £800 per week earnings bracket this means you will be paying 21% for one child, 28% for two children and then 34% for three or more so they have compensated for when you dare to try and survive.

 

 CMEC have also compensated for those non resident parents who take their own lives, by this this can put a charging order on the deceased property to recover arrears for child support, how sick is that when the family the deceased has left behind is now faced with their home being taken from them just to recover arrears for child support, so now they have put the second family on the street, so much for them stating we do realise times can be sensitive during times of divorce, so what about  when a non resident parent takes his life because he cannot afford to live and leaves his second partner, wife, family behind you continue to drive THEM into the ground, you decide.

 

 The next part is they can go direct to your employer to issue a Deduction of Earnings order on you, again in the past they have gone direct to employers and intimidated those by stating that if they did not give the information about a certain employer then they could be fined up to £1000 for every month they fail to give the evidence to them, this is true however the CSA being the corrupt law breaking agency it is they were not providing the full details they were supposed to provide therefore making the Agency in breach of the Data Protection Act and the Child Support Act, and to which was no surprise to us that they were not informing the Employer of their full rights which means that even to this day non resident parents who have had deduction of earnings orders issued against them can prosecute both the CSA and their employers. The CSA or CMEC may think they are Crown Immune however this is not true as each individual case worker can be prosecuted under misconduct of public office, all you need is proof of their name on the letters, a breakdown of the case under the Data Protection Act and the proof they have not followed procedure then you have a case. If the Employer has given your details out to the CSA/CMEC without first contacting you then they have broken the law, they will have also breached the Data Protection Act if they have not seen proof from the CSA/CMEC that you are the liable person, this again is in the Child Support Act. The employer has to give information to the secretary of state the income details of the LIABLE PERSONS details, since when do the CSA provide proof the non resident parent is the Liable Person? They Don’t therefore they have broken the law.

 

 The other new law that has been passed is that the CMEC can do in house Liability Orders. So are we to assume that case workers at CMEC can do an assessment or make up arrears to suit their budget as they have been doing? If this is so can we assume that if you are paying  child maintenance at the usual extortionate new rates they can then still use the same procedure as they have been using by making up arrears again the usual procedure as in CSA 1 and 2,.Now as some of you already know under CSA1 and 2 those non resident parents who have received letters stating that they are in arrears of so many thousands of pounds, when the non resident parent tried to contact the CSA they were faced with excuse such as “ your case worker is not in ring back tomorrow” or “give us your number and we will ring you back” only they never rang back. Well the same can happen here and after three or four weeks of receiving the letter and trying to contact them only to be fobbed of with the usual excuses and they realise that the 19% is the maximum they can take from the NRP then the Commissioner can now under section 32 M subsection 1 of the Child Support Act that the Commissioner may make an order against the Liable person in respect of the amount he owes.  Are we to now assume that the CMEC case worker or line manager are now the Magistrates judge and jury? Are we not correct in thinking that a Liability Order is a legal way of proving that a debt is owing? Are we not guilty until proven innocent is what we have been asking the corrupt Magistrates Court Managers who has allowed the Perversion of Justice to take place in the courts to allow the CSA to pursue debts illegally, they kept coming back with to us with you are getting a civil offence mixed up with a criminal matter, we defended this by stating that if we do not pay child maintenance we can be committed to prison this is then a criminal offence. They could not come back with anything after that which means that they are picking and choosing part of the law to suit themselves, this now makes us believe there is corruption and collusion going on between the Secretary of State and the court system.

 

 CMEC can now just remove money from the Non Resident Parents bank account despite the fact that it may be jointly owned, irrespective of who has put what amount in, in other words if the non resident parent pays £200 into an account and the non resident parents partner pays £600 out of that £800 total CMEC will take £400 of that money, so they are now removing money from the non resident parents partner or whoever else may be named on the account. The NRPP may however challenge the Commission in respect to taking their money rather than money paid in by the NRP. So yet again the Government wanting to control not only your income before you get it but now they want to remove money from your bank account or savings. This is again from a Government who is concerned or alleged to be concerned about the economy and how they are trying to help families who are struggling with their mortgages due to the current recession we are in, however they deliberately plunge a father and maybe his second family into poverty when it comes to child maintenance.

 

     They can also take a lump sum using a Lump Sum Deduction order from a deposit or savings account if he fails to pay child support maintenance and this can be used using the Administrative Direction Method.  Again given the track record of the staff at the CSA this can be open to abuse, by this the CMEC can and most probably will to again meet targets laid down by the Government ministers target people who may not be a father, again we go back to the case where a male who was gay and had never had a relationship with a female let alone have any children, was faced with £500 being taken from his wages, all of this because a female had a grudge against him, went to the CSA she gave them his name his address and his place of work. The CSA using their illegal actions just issued his employer with a deduction of earnings order, again not following the correct procedure of failing to furnish his employer with proof he was the liable person and also his employer not following the correct procedure laid down in the Employment Act to contact their employee to inform him that the CSA had been in touch or even put a deduction of earnings order on him this resulted in him having to pay out £300 to have a DNA test done to prove he was not the father of the said child(ren). Just imagine if he could not afford to pay that amount, he would have to pay for a child(ren) that was not his. The CSA tried to get out of it by stating that they sent out numerous letters to him but he refused to answer them, the usual lies that come from CSA workers, so that give them carte blanche to issue a DEO to his employee, all of this because of a woman with a grudge, so what is to stop this happening again, all it needs is for some case worker wanting to meet their targets then given the powers they have to trace anybody and finding out what bank they bank with and issuing the Deduction order to the bank. Then some individual and his family may suffer a loss because of this.

 

 Most of these new laws passed are nothing short of Unlawful Venimous Militant Control, (UVMP). If you are a divorced father then you are classed worse than a terrorist by a Government who should not be interfering with the Family Unit. If you have a Administrative Liabilty Order granted or any other order granted on you then you need to contact us so we can take this matter further.