Child Maintenance Service: Standards
(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service's Financial Investigations Unit.
This question was answered on 8th September 2020
The Financial Investigations Unit (FIU) is equipped with powers to conduct full and in depth investigations in to allegations made against a paying parent’s financial circumstances. They will then determine the most appropriate action to get Child Maintenance Payments flowing to the receiving parent.
Please find attached statistics of actions taken by FIU. These can be found on Table 12 of the National Tables available on Gov.uk