Question follow-through · 28070
Social Security Benefits: Deductions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that direct deduction orders do not leave people in relative poverty.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that direct deduction orders do not leave people in relative poverty.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) encourages paying parents to pay their maintenance on time in order to avoid accrual of arrears. Where a paying parent fails to pay on time or in full, the Service is committed to using its wide-ranging enforcement powe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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