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Statistics about separated families and the child maintenance system.
How to set up or manage a child maintenance arrangement, including what to do if a parent does not pay, how to contact the Child Maintenance Service, and signing in to your account.
Child maintenance covers how your child’s living costs will be paid when…
Your child needs to be under 16 - or under 20 if they are in full-time…
You can either arrange child maintenance: privately between parents, if…
Payments can be arranged: privately between parents, if both parents agree…
Sign in to your Child Maintenance Service account to: report a change in…
If you or the other parent in your child maintenance case denies that…
There are some changes you must tell the Child Maintenance Service about…
You can contact the Child Maintenance Service through your online account.…
Make a complaint Follow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)…
You can make a private arrangement with your child’s other parent about…
Statistics on the Financial Investigations Unit (FIU) investigations into cases of complex earners who are suspected of evading their child maintenance.
See how the Child Maintenance Service works out maintenance and the rates they use
Experimental statistics on the Child Support Agency's 1993 and 2003 statutory child maintenance schemes and CSA case closures.
This guidance explains how to pay child maintenance using Collect & Pay arrangements and what happens if you do not make a payment.
Official statistics on child maintenance arrangements administered by the Child Maintenance Service.
This series brings together leaflets about the 1993 and 2003 child maintenance schemes managed by the Child Support Agency.
This series brings together leaflets about the 2012 child maintenance scheme managed by the Child Maintenance Service.
The Commission was responsible for overseeing child maintenance arrangements in Great Britain. It was abolished in 2012 with responsibilities passing to the Department for Work and Pensions.
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