Children: Maintenance

(asked on 16th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many six months' notice warning letters of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each month since 30 June 2014.


Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 21st January 2015

The table attached below shows the monthly distribution of first contact notice of closure letters, issued to parents six months prior to case closure. It also shows the cumulative totals that have been sent in each month since 30 June 2014, when the case closure process started with a low volume pathfinder approach before ramping to full volumes from September 2014.

Month

Notifications Issued in Month

Cumulative Number of Notifications Issued

July 2014

3,890

3,890

August 2014

19,092

22,982

September 2014

45,903

68,885

October 2014

55,193

124,078

November 2014

67,978

192,056

December 2014

50,508

242,564

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