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Written Question
Children: Maintenance
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Child Support Agency applies a de minimis limit for investigating allegations of fraud.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

No minimum threshold is applied for investigating allegations of fraud related to child maintenance by either the Child Support Agency or the Child Maintenance Service, allegations of this kind are considered on a case by case basis.