Guidance

Child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy 2018

Guidance on the different areas of the government's child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy 2018.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 14 December 2018

Documents

Child maintenance: changes to compliance measures

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Child Support Agency: information for parents with historical debt

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Details

The child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy 2018 was proposed in a consultation in December 2017.

The changes following this consultation include:

• improvements to child maintenance calculations for complex earners
• stronger collection and enforcement measures
• a new collection process for historical child maintenance debt from Child Support Agency (CSA) cases

The guidance explains how these changes affect parents.

Published 14 December 2018