Question follow-through · 38249

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the risk that the Collect and Pay service charge system can be used to place additional financial pressure on the paying parent.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 13 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 17 Mar 2025
Answer: 21 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the risk that the Collect and Pay service charge system can be used to place additional financial pressure on the paying parent.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Mar 2025
Answer published
All parents are given the option to use the Direct Pay service, where no fees apply. If a paying parent pays on time and in full on Direct Pay and there is no reason to believe they would be unlikely to pay; they cannot be forced to use the Collect and Pa...

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