
Change the law to allow the Child Maintenance Service to issue calculations and apply deductions directly from wages without notifying the paying parent. This could rely on HMRC, employer and DWP records alone without needing to identify a “last known or notified address”.
Pat McFadden
Work & Pensions Secretary
Include Child Maintenance as Income in Universal Credit and Means-Tested Benefit
Review Child Maintenance Service to disincentivise parents withholding custody
Require child maintenance payments to increase by inflation & review enforcement
Reform Child Maintenance Service, strengthen processes to protect paying parent
Change Universal Credit so second parent earnings don't affect family’s payment
Change the law to allow the Child Maintenance Service to issue calculations and apply deductions directly from wages without notifying the paying parent. This could rely on HMRC, employer and DWP records alone without needing to identify a “last known or notified address”.
Include Child Maintenance as Income in Universal Credit and Means-Tested Benefit
Review Child Maintenance Service to disincentivise parents withholding custody
Require child maintenance payments to increase by inflation & review enforcement
Reform Child Maintenance Service, strengthen processes to protect paying parent
Change Universal Credit so second parent earnings don't affect family’s payment