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Find out about Managed Service Companies and Managed Service Company Providers, including how to identify them and their role in tax avoidance schemes.
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 approved…
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…
Child maintenance stops on 31 August on or after your child’s 16th…
Pay a maintenance order online or by telephone using a credit or debit card
Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks
A guide for Service families about applying for, maintaining, moving in and out of and living in UK Service Family Accommodation (SFA).
What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of the parents lives abroad.
Find out what to do if your child maintenance payment is missed or you're not able to pay your child maintenance.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Statistics about separated families and the child maintenance system.
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.
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