Research and analysis

Parents on benefits with child maintenance liabilities or arrears

Management information showing the number of parents on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits with ongoing child maintenance liabilities or arrears.

Documents

Deductions from benefits: paying parents on statutory child maintenance schemes by benefit and child maintenance arrangement status, Great Britain

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Details

This publication follows the government’s response to the compliance and arrears strategy consultation, which proposes to provide greater consistency to DWP’s abilities to deduct child maintenance liabilities or arrears from benefit payments.

Updates to this page

Published 6 March 2019

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