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<p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is responsible for setting the overall amount
of child maintenance to be paid.</p><p>The Ministry of Defence has a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) in place with the CMS to facilitate the direct deduction of child
maintenance payments from the pay of non-resident parents who are Service personnel.
Under the MOU, the Department calculates a 'Minimum Drawing Rate', which takes into
account gross basic pay, specialist pay, some allowances as well as gross statutory
deductions such as National Insurance and PAYE.</p><p>Child maintenance deductions
are always made. The only exception is when the Service person is on military operations
and their Commanding Officer may advise that engagement with the CMS be delayed until
their return to the UK when they are in a position to consider properly any papers
from the CMS and respond accordingly, at which point deductions would commence.</p><p>I
refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 11 June 2019 to Question 261264
which detailed the administrative reasons for the rejection of deduction of earnings
requests.</p>
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