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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…
If you use the Child Maintenance Service, they will work out your child…
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…
Sign in to your online account If you already have a Child Maintenance…
Make a complaint Follow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)…
You can make a private arrangement with your child’s other parent about…
Use this calculator to work out an amount of child maintenance for your children.
See how the Child Maintenance Service works out maintenance and the rates they use
The Child Maintenance Service usually follows 6 steps to work out the…
You can ask the Child Maintenance Service to take other income and…
The amount you pay or receive in child maintenance can change when: your…
What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of the parents lives abroad.
Pay a maintenance order online or by telephone using a credit or debit card
You might be able to get Income Tax back or pay less tax if you make maintenance payments to an ex-spouse or civil partner.
Statistics about separated families and the child maintenance system.
Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks
What you must do by law with a deductions from earnings order (DEO or AEO) to make child maintenance deductions from your employee's pay.
Guides about keeping commercial vehicles safe to drive, including heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), vans, buses, coaches and other public service vehicles.
What happens when the Environment Agency stops maintaining a flood or coastal erosion defence, how to challenge the decision and how to manage your risk afterwards.
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) if you're studying in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales
New powers for the Child Maintenance Service to recover cash from non-paying parents faster.
Form and guidance for parents applying to get or change a decision on child maintenance in another EU country.
This guidance explains how to pay child maintenance using Collect & Pay arrangements and what happens if you do not make a payment.
This guidance explains what liability orders are in child maintenance cases and how to pay them.
Use this form to identify maintenance work and show work undertaken on traditional farm buildings as part of a Countryside Stewardship agreement.
Consultations, calls for evidence and other documents related to tax policy development and the administration, maintenance and reform of the tax system.
Contact your council to find out whether they offer a garden maintenance service for elderly or disabled council tenants
This series brings together leaflets about the 2012 child maintenance scheme managed by the Child Maintenance Service.
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