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<p>The following table shows the number of Paying Parents who had outstanding unpaid
child maintenance (which now needs to be collected through the Collect & Pay service)
at the end of the relevant month.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Paying
Parents with CMS arrears</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-17</p></td><td><p>105,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-17</p></td><td><p>117,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-18</p></td><td><p>126,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-18</p></td><td><p>136,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p>143,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-18*</p></td><td><p>148,200</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p
/><p>Please note the following points:</p><ul><li>A Paying Parent may be paying towards
multiple child maintenance arrangements;</li><li>These figures do not consider unpaid
child maintenance that was arranged by the Child Support Agency;</li><li>Paying Parents
with any amount of unpaid maintenance which was arranged by the Child Maintenance
Service (CMS) are considered as having arrears;</li><li>Figures have been rounded
to the nearest 100.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Information prior to September 2017 is not
readily available and to produce it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>*Information
for December 2018 is not readily available; November 2018 figures have been used instead.</p>
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