Children: Maintenance

(asked on 10th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of parents (a) in receipt of child maintenance paid via the Child Support Agency (CSA) who will elect not to use the Child Maintenance Service's Collect and Pay service and (b) who currently use the CSA but who will elect to reach their own child maintenance arrangements following the changes introduced from 30 June 2014; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 13th October 2014

Most recent estimates show up that 800,000 Child Support Agency cases will close during the case closure process and 504,000 will apply to the Child Maintenance Service. Of these it is estimated that 202,000 cases will not use the Collect and Pay service and 169,000 of the 800,000 cases will make a Family Based Arrangement.     

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