Children: Maintenance
(asked on 1st March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase collection rates of child maintenance payments.
This question was answered on 9th March 2022
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) take rigorous action to collect maintenance, combining robust negotiation activity with the highly effective use of its extensive range of Enforcement Powers.
There has been a consistent downward trend in the proportion of unpaid maintenance as a proportion of maintenance arranged, falling from 12.5% in 2017 to 8.5% in September 2021