Question follow-through · 16455
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what investigations are undertaken by the Child Maintenance Service into paying parents who are suspected of having undeclared income.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what investigations are undertaken by the Child Maintenance Service into paying parents who are suspected of having undeclared income.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2026
Answer published
Where a paying parent changes jobs, The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) uses real-time information from HMRC where available, to quickly identify new employment and adjust maintenance calculations accordingly. People who are self-employed are required to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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