Children: Maintenance

(asked on 5th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of child maintenance have been exempted from paying the application fee for Collect-and-Pay as a result of domestic abuse.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 10th July 2018

Exemption from paying the application fee due to domestic abuse applies to the statutory scheme as a whole, and is applied to applications whether the parent requests Direct Pay or Collect & Pay.

The latest statistics on Application Fee Exemptions are published in Table 2 of the Child Maintenance Service: August 2013 to March 2018 (experimental) publication available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental

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