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.
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 |