Children: Maintenance
(asked on 17th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2022 to Question 100622 on Children: Maintenance, how many deduction of earning requests made by the Child Maintenance Service have been declined by Defence Business Services in the financial year 2020-21; and what the reasons for those requests being declined were.
In financial year 2020-21 a total of 554 deduction of earning requests were received from the Child Maintenance Service for Service personnel; of these, 142 could not be processed. The reasons for the rejections were:
No. of Rejections | Reason for Rejection |
118 | A deduction of earning order was issued, rather than a deduction of earning request |
15 | Service person had been discharged |
3 | Service person was a reservist |
1 | Service Person not in receipt of pay |
4 | Service person in Operational Zone |
1 | Request addressed to a Service person directly and not to Defence Business Services |
For Ministry of Defence (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.