Children: Maintenance
(asked on 6th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many deduction of earning requests made by the Child Maintenance Service have been declined by the (a) MoD Defence Council and (b) Authorised Officer; and if she will publish the reasons for those requests being declined.
Defence Business Services, within the Ministry of Defence (MOD), is responsible for administering requests and orders from the Child Maintenance Service.
In financial year 2018-19 818 deduction of earning requests were received from the Child Maintenance Service for Service personnel; of these, 129 were rejected. The reasons for the rejection were:
No. of Rejections | Reason for Rejection |
~ | Service person not in receipt of pay |
~ | Insufficient information on request to validate a Service person’s identity |
30 | Service person had been discharged |
15 | Service person was a reservist |
75 | A deduction of earning order was issued, rather than a deduction of earning request |
~ | Request addressed to a Service person directly and not to Defence Business Services |
In line with Departmental policy ~ represents five or fewer.
For MOD civilian staff, the number of deduction orders declined is not held centrally and could be provided only 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.