Julian Knight – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Knight on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to ensure that child support awarded by tribunals under the pre-2012 Child Support Agency system are upheld under the post-2012 system.

Priti Patel

Tribunals do not award Child Maintenance, they direct on individual decisions.

If an individual chooses to apply to the new 2012 scheme after their case on one of the legacy schemes is closed, the rules of the 2012 scheme will apply. Clients are able to provide evidence of prior Tribunal decisions when requesting, or contesting, a new decision which will be taken into consideration where appropriate.