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This guidance explains what liability orders are in child maintenance cases and how to pay them.
This guidance explains how to pay child maintenance using Collect & Pay arrangements and what happens if you do not make a payment.
This factsheet explains how child maintenance payments are affected when a child stays overnight with the parent who pays child maintenance.
It’s usually in the best interests of a child that gets child maintenance…
This leaflet explains how the Child Maintenance Service works out how much child maintenance a paying parent must pay.
This factsheet is about investigating officers from the Child Maintenance Service.
This leaflet explains the process for reviewing child maintenance cases every year and how it affects paying parents and receiving parents.
This factsheet explains how we adjust child maintenance payments when children live with different parents ('split care').
How payroll software developers should standardise payroll report formats for child maintenance purposes.
This factsheet explains how to ask us to consider certain types of income when working out child maintenance – 'applying for a variation'.
This leaflet explains how you will receive child maintenance if you have a Collect & Pay arrangement with the Child Maintenance Service.
This document explains how we will end liabilities under the 1993 and 2003 child maintenance schemes.
This document provides information on the uses and users of the Child Maintenance Service statistics.
This document provides background information about the separated families statistics and information on how they are compiled.
Strategy for the publication of statistical information about the 2012 scheme administered by the Child Maintenance Service.
Guidance on the different areas of the government's child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy 2018.
Information on the quarterly surveys and the annual longitudinal survey of child maintenance outcomes for parents that have spoken to Child Maintenance (CM) Options.
Progress measures demonstrate that providers are aware of the specific problems, issues and barriers faced by families in their Contract Package Area (CPA).
Information about the publication of Child Support Agency statistics.
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