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1202950

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date	11/06/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many single parents have seen their child maintenance payments reduced as a result of the paying parent making a new claim for universal credit since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	58625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>We do hold summarised information on number of Change of Circumstances requests for Child Maintenance payments.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2020 13:41:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1202951

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many single parents have not received at least one child maintenance payment from the paying parent since the service paused chasing missed payments.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	58626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The number of Parents due to pay via Collect and Pay who have paid not any maintenance each month is published quarterly. The latest figures for Child Maintenance Service are up to December 2019 and can be found in Table 9 at the link below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-december-2019-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-december-2019-experimental</a></p><p> </p><p>The number of Parents due to pay via Collect and Pay who have not paid maintenance since 1 April 2020 will not be available until the publication in September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2020 13:06:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1194265

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to resume chasing missed child maintenance payments.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	44959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Service is currently offering a reduced service due to coronavirus pandemic, in agreement with ministers, and will focus on priority work. We will not take action to collect arrears during this current period but we will collect any unpaid amounts including any missed payments at a later date.</p><p> </p><p>The DWP are currently formulating a recovery plan, which details our staged approach to move back to normal service. Based on current planning assumptions, Child Maintenance Service expects to provide further detail on the approach to missed payments in July 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/05/2020 16:41:32 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1194266

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support the Government is providing to victims of abuse who are waiting for missed child maintenance payments.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	44960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>Where parents have reported domestic abuse, agents are trained to signpost clients to additional sources of support, including the new gov.uk page which highlights support routes in a crisis, as well as advice services. The Child Maintenance Options (CMO) website provides advice and signposting information to a number of specialist domestic abuse support organisations, as well as advice and information on staying safe.</p><p> </p><p>Paying Parents have a regular schedule of payments to make and are still expected to pay child maintenance throughout this period.</p><p> </p><p>If arrears do accrue during this period due to missed payments, the Service will deal with the debt once the current situation stabilises, to ensure that receiving parents do not lose out in the long run. The Service will update calculations as soon as possible and collect any unpaid amounts that may have accrued. Any parent found to have abused the system will find themselves subject to the full extent of our enforcement powers – including prosecution through the courts.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/05/2020 17:05:32 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1184858

registered interest
date	13/03/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) advice and (b) guidance her Department is providing to claimants of social security benefits on the administration of those (i) claims and (ii) benefits during the covid-19 outbreak; and what such (A) advice and (B) guidance her Department is providing to those claimants at high-risk of developing a severe illness as a result of a covid-19 infection.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	29197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>On 12 March 2020 regulations (The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020) were laid to give effect to the measures outlined in the Budget, designed to help delay the spread of COVID-19 and ensure people are not penalised for doing the right thing. This will represent a boost of almost £500 million to the welfare system and ensure work search and work availability requirements within Universal Credit (UC) are switched off. Affected self-employed claimants will also not have a Minimum Income Floor (as assumed level of income) applied for a period of time within UC.</p><p> </p><p>To avoid increasing the burden on health care professionals and the risk of further infection, we are removing the requirement for fit notes in relation to both Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and UC claims relating to COVID-19 only. In line with current NHS guidance; anyone required to self-isolate or having COVID-19 will be treated as having Limited Capability for Work in ESA and UC without the requirement for medical evidence or undergoing a Work Capability Assessment.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, to better support the needs of people (particularly the self-employed and those not eligible for SSP) and/or not entitled to UC, we are removing the seven waiting days that currently apply to ESA. This means that everyone who makes a new claim for ESA; is entitled to the benefit and is infected with Covid-19 or required to self-isolate will be paid from day one of their claim.</p><p> </p><p>Government officials continue to work closely together to understand the potential impacts of COVID-19 on employment and benefits. The Department has introduced new guidance about claiming benefits which can be found at: <a href="https://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/coronavirus/" target="_blank">https://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/coronavirus/</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2020 13:40:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe