A new service launched this month is making it easier for businesses to meet their legal obligation to deduct child maintenance from employees’ wages.
The Child Maintenance Service Employer Self Service will replace the old paper-based system with a new free online portal.
The new online service is available for all employers who administer Deduction from Earnings Orders with the Child Maintenance Service and will help ensure these payments are accurate and paid on time, every time.
Businesses can report when any employee for whom they deduct maintenance stops working for them in one easy click through to the HMRC website.
The Child Maintenance Service Employer Self Service is being introduced gradually from this month.
The Government is also reforming child support services to help more separated parents sort out child maintenance arrangements themselves, in the best interests of their children.
For those genuinely unable to collaborate, the new Child Maintenance Service will still be there and will provide a faster, better service, backed up by stronger enforcement.
The Child Maintenance Service has been introduced gradually since 2012 and is now open to all separated parents. It will replace the Child Support Agency by 2017/18, when all current CSA cases have closed.
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