Child Maintenance Service: Standards
(asked on 31st January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount of time is for a Child Maintenance Service case to be concluded once it has been referred to the Financial Investigation Unit.
This question was answered on 7th February 2023
Financial Investigations are average currently taking 23 weeks from allocation to completion by an investigator. Criminal cases will take significantly longer.
All timings will depend on the complexity of each individual case.