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A statement of your earnings, including overtime, bonus or commission, for the last 3 months.
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.
The Child Maintenance Service can ask you to: give information about an…
You must deduct the amount of child maintenance stated on the deduction…
A deduction from earnings order (DEO) can only be made from an employee’s…
Send deduction from earnings order (DEO) payments to the Child Maintenance…
You’ll get a monthly payment schedule by post after you’ve been sent a…
You must contact the Child Maintenance Service within 10 days if: you’re…
How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
You have to make deductions from your employee’s wages if a court orders…
You and your employee will each get an ‘attachment of earnings order’…
Priority orders are used for unpaid maintenance or fines. Calculate your…
Non-priority orders are used for debts from a county court judgment (CCJ).…
You can only make a deduction from the following earnings: wages, fees,…
The order that you get for the employee will tell you whether you have to…
Write to the Centralised Attachment of Earning Payments (CAPS) office…
The amount you earn, and how often you're paid your wages, can affect your Universal Credit.
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 09 January 2026.
How to complete your CT600 Company Tax Return form for Corporation Tax and what information you need to include.
When debt payments can be taken from your wages, changing how much you pay, paying it off early, and reporting a change to your circumstances
Find out whether you need to pay UK tax on foreign income - residence and ‘non-dom’ status, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice (including certificates of residence)
If you have a court order that has not been paid, you can ask the county court to order a debtor's employer to take money directly from the debtor's wages.
Estimates of the take-up of the main income-related benefits by caseload and expenditure in Great Britain.
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