Guidance

Child maintenance: deductions from earnings: factsheet

This factsheet explains what happens when we ask an employer to take money from a parent's earnings or pension to pay for child maintenance.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
1 October 2013

This publication was withdrawn on

This leaflet is no longer up to date. Find out how the Child Maintenance Service deducts child maintenance from earnings.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

[Withdrawn] What is a deduction from earnings order?

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78153-714-5, CMSB019GB

PDF, 124 KB, 3 pages

Details

We can ask the employer of a parent who pays child maintenance to take some money from the parent’s earnings or pension if the parent:

  • owes some child maintenance
  • has not made a satisfactory agreement to pay child maintenance

This is known as a deduction from earnings order.

This factsheet explains what this means for parents who pay child maintenance and parents who receive child maintenance.

Find out more about child maintenance.

Published 1 October 2013

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