Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what grounds can child maintenance be written off by the Child Support Agency.

The grounds on which child maintenance arrears may be written off are available in The Child Support (Management of Payments and Arrears) Regulations 2009.

Circumstances include where the receiving parent (or child in Scotland) has died, or requests that the arrears are written off; where the paying parent has died and there is no further action that can be taken to recover the arrears; and where the arrears fall under the circumstances detailed in the child maintenance Compliance and Arrears Strategy.

A comprehensive list of the grounds for write off is available in the link below:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3151/part/PART4B

The response to the Compliance and Arrears Strategy consultation is available in the link below:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/724358/response-child-maintenance-compliance-and-arrears-strategy-consultation.pdf