Children: Maintenance
(asked on 10th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many deduction of earning requests made by the Child Maintenance Service have been declined by Defence Business Services in the last five years; and what the reasons for those requests being declined were.
Since January 2017 to 12 January 2022 a total of 3,456 deduction of earning requests were received from the Child Maintenance Service for Service personnel; of these, 668 could not be processed. The reasons for the rejections were:
No. of Rejections | Reason for Rejection |
394 | A deduction of earning order was issued, rather than a deduction of earning request |
144 | Service person had been discharged |
88 | Service person was a reservist |
20 | No trace of individual |
10 | Service Person not in receipt of pay |
8 | Service person in Operational Zone |
4 | Request addressed to a Service person directly and not to Defence Business Services |
For MOD civilian staff, the number of deductions of earning orders declined is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost, however, a deduction of earning order would only be rejected if an individual was no longer employed by the MOD or if they were in receipt of insufficient earnings to meet the request.