For anyone raising a child on their own, maintenance payments from the other parent can be vital in making ends meet.
But tonight the system for administering them has been branded unfit for purpose.
Campaigners say it can be complicated, slow and puts people off making a claim.
They’re calling for reforms which they say could lift 20,000 children in Scotland out of poverty.
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