Kate Green – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-04-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the £31 million of child maintenance arrears written off in 2014-15 was written off under each of the ground in the Child Support Management of Payment and Arrears (Amendment) Regulations 2012.
Priti Patel
The circumstances of the £31 million of child maintenance arrears written off in 2014-15 is shown in the table below:
|
Circumstance |
2014/15 write off (£m) |
|
The person with care has requested that the Secretary of State ceases to act in respect of the arrears |
6.5 |
|
A child in Scotland has requested that the Secretary of State ceases to act in respect of the arrears |
0.0 |
|
The person with care, or (in Scotland) the child, has died |
3.0 |
|
The non-resident parent died before 25 January 2010 or there is no further action that can be taken with regard to recovery of the arrears from the non-resident parent’s estate |
19.8 |
|
The arrears relate to liability for child support maintenance for any period in respect of which an interim maintenance assessment was in force between 5 April 1993 and 18 April 1995 |
0.1 |
|
The non-resident parent has been informed by the Secretary of State that no further action would ever be taken to recover those arrears |
0.2 |
|
Other |
1.3 |
Notes
- The figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred thousand.
- The circumstance ‘Other’ includes amounts written off following Secretary of State and client part payment, £0.5m, arrears written off which were due to the Secretary of State, £0.2m and adjustments to arrears balances which have transitioned to the 2012 Child Maintenance system, £0.6m.
