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PAYadvice.UK sees a number of social posts and questions around the effective payroll dates when crossing from the 2024/2025 tax year into the new 2025/2026 tax year. Most recently have related to poor business planning by some employers on the impacts of National Insurance increases relating to work undertaken in March 2025 or earlier which … Continue reading Payroll dates – what affects what?
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Schedule 2 of the Debtors Scotland Act 1987 sets out the amount that can be deducted from an individual's wages when they are subject to diligence against earnings (more commonly referred to as earnings arrestment). The tables within the schedule have been reviewed and as a result, the Diligence against Earnings … Continue reading Scottish Earnings Arrestment Change 2025
The Government has extended the consultation on the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to ensure there is suitable time for feedback from external organisations. The consultation, launched 8th May 2024, is a chance to discuss ways the CMS can help to increase the number of children being kept out of poverty. DWP Lords Minister, Baroness Maeve Sherlock: This government … Continue reading Child Maintenance consultation extended
Parents who refuse to pay child maintenance will face accelerated sanctions as Ministers announce the introduction of new powers to speed up strong enforcement action and other reforms to make the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) fairer. Introducing long-term changes to make the system fairer for children and parents Enforcement process to be made almost four … Continue reading New crackdown on parents who refuse to pay child maintenance launched
Parents who fail to pay child maintenance will face tougher sanctions faster after new laws were passed … to speed up stronger enforcement action. A Private Members’ Bill sponsored by Siobhan Baillie MP and Baroness Redfern has become law. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will be able to impose tougher sanctions on non-paying … Continue reading Swifter sanctions on unpaid child maintenance
Parliament has approved new powers to stop child maintenance economic abuse New law will allow Child Maintenance Service to intervene in payments More financial protection for children in separated families The new law will allow the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to intervene on behalf of parents where abuse is evident, using its powers to collect … Continue reading New child maintenance powers to protect victims from domestic abusers
The Scottish Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth has written to the Economy and Fair Work Committee to outline his plans to bring forward proposals to uprate the earnings arrestment tables from 6th April 2023. These tables were last uprated in April 2022 and are normally uprated every three years. However, given the … Continue reading Scottish Earnings Arrestment change April 2023
The change is being considered as part of proposals that will get more of the money that is owed to the children of separated parents. The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) were involved in £1 billion of child maintenance payments during 2021, operating as a crucial weapon in the battle against child poverty. Child support payments … Continue reading Curfews for parents who fail to pay child maintenance
Children of separated parents are set to benefit from changes to the Child Maintenance Service announced 14th March 2022 as new powers are revealed. New powers introduced will expand the list of companies and organisations required to provide information to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) which will help the service trace the paying parent, calculate … Continue reading Children to benefit from Child Maintenance Service changes
New figures reveal a record £1 billion in child maintenance payments has been collected and arranged in the last 12 months to September 2021. Figures reveal: nearly 800,000 children are now covered by a child maintenance arrangementresults prove strength of vital service to separated parents and children The sum was collected and arranged on behalf … Continue reading Record £1 billion child support
The Welsh Government is seeking views on the proposal to amend earnings thresholds for Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEO) issued by Welsh local authorities. They are proposing to uprate the AEO thresholds so that the level of earnings taken into account for council tax purposes reflects ‘real terms change’. Increasing the earnings limits will protect … Continue reading Welsh Government Attachment of Earnings Orders consultation
Proposed changes to Scottish Earnings Arrestment tables for April 2022 have been published. Accountant in Bankruptcy (Scotland’s Insolvency Service) is expected to lay regulations in the Scottish Parliament in November which will uprate the current Diligence against Earnings tables. These tables are used to determine the amount deducted from a person’s wages if they are … Continue reading Scottish Earnings Arrestment changes April 2022
Changes to DEA deductions because of coronavirus (COVID-19) The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed (7th July 2020) that benefit debt repayments continue to be temporarily stopped because of #coronavirus. Employers should continue to not make any DEA deductions from employees’ pay. The DWP indicate that they will write to the employer with … Continue reading Direct Earnings Suspension (DEA) Continues
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Department for Work and Pensions has temporarily paused the recovery of benefit overpayments, for three months. Many claimants will see an increase in the amount of money they receive in benefits. Deductions for the recovery of Universal Credit and legacy benefit overpayments, Social Fund loans and Tax Credit … Continue reading Benefit Debt collection suspended #coronavirus #COVID19
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/direct-earnings-attachments-an-employers-guide 4th April 2020 the DWP published changes to DEA deduction due to coronavirus. Rumours were circulating that as a result of #COVID19 that court orders, attachment of earnings orders (AEOs) and Scottish Earnings Arrestments had been suspended - not true. Employers ‘may be asked to deduct money an employee owes the Department for Work … Continue reading Temporary changes to DWP issued DEA deductions #COVID19 #coronavirus