Guidance

Child maintenance: receiving payments through the Child Maintenance Service: leaflet

This leaflet explains how you will receive child maintenance if you have a Collect & Pay arrangement with the Child Maintenance Service.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 18 March 2013
• Last updated: 23 September 2022 — See all updates

Documents

Receiving child maintenance

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78153-317-8, CMSB013GB v004 (August 2022)

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Receiving child maintenance

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-468-6, CMSB013GB v004 (August 2022)

PDF, 165 KB, 12 pages

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This leaflet explains how you will receive child maintenance if you have a Collect & Pay arrangement with the Child Maintenance Service.

Collect & Pay is when we work out an amount of child maintenance which the paying parent legally has to pay. We then collect payments from them and pass them on to the receiving parent.

Find out more about child maintenance.

If you need this leaflet in a different format

Contact the Child Maintenance Service to ask for:

• a printed copy of the leaflet

• a copy of the leaflet in Welsh

• a different format, such as large print or Braille

Published 18 March 2013

Last updated 23 September 2022 + show all updates

1. 23 September 2022

   Published updated leaflet with the latest guidance about child maintenance. The updated leaflet is now labelled v004 (August 2022).

2. 6 September 2022

   References to out of date leaflets removed ('What happens if a paying parent doesn't pay child maintenance'; 'Managing your payments with Direct Pay'). Contact information updated.

3. 25 November 2020

   Amended guidance on how to contact the Child Maintenance Service.

4. 30 June 2014

   Published updated leaflet with the latest guidance about child maintenance.

5. 18 March 2013

   First published.