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Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) and deducting any money an employee owes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from their pay

• Overview

  As an employer you may be asked to deduct benefit overpayments an employee…

• How it works

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will write to you if you need…

• Calculating DEA

  To calculate the deductions from your employee’s pay you’ll have to: work…

• What counts as earnings

  When calculating Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) payments, you should…

Form D8D: Petition for a presumption of death decree/order and the dissolution of a marriage/civil partnership.

Decommissioning programmes, including dates, locations, installations decommissioned, method of decommissioning and close-out reports where available.

• Updated: 6 February 2026

Information to help the family and friends of British nationals who have died in Denmark.

• Updated: 28 April 2020

Detailed statistics on offenders released under Standard Determinate Sentence 40 (SDS40).

• Updated: 29 January 2026

DCA is now the Ministry of Justice

• Updated: 15 April 2021

The DIU is the MOD's departmental focal point for the coordination and management of all Defence-related inquests into the deaths of service and MOD civilian personnel whilst at work.

• Updated: 1 April 2022

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.

Deaths of offenders in the community covers deaths of offenders supervised in the community by the Probation Service in England and Wales.

• Updated: 30 October 2025

Number of deaths registered in a calendar month, by area of usual residence.

• Updated: 23 January 2018