High level business requirements for child maintenance payment changes - GOV.UK


High level business requirements for child maintenance payment changes - GOV.UK

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5.1. The Commission is requesting that the payroll software community implement the following requirements:


support the running of DEOs with either protected earnings expressed as:


Amendments to DEOs issued on the existing (1993 and 2003) schemes.


Regulations 8(3), 8(4) and 8(5) of the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 and the Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1992


define earnings for the purposes of DEOs.


Deductions under a DEO can only be made from the following types of earnings:


The format of this reference number will be 12 digits e.g. 111111111111.


All 1993 and 2003 scheme DEOs issued by the CSA remain unaffected.


Further information on the report format, a full schema and example file formats


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