Children: Maintenance
Commons · Question 121969 · Tabled 18 Mar 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Joshua Reynolds
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases in the last three years involved child maintenance payments being incorrectly refunded to the paying parent due to clerical error; and what steps the Department is taking to reduce such e
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 26 Mar 2026
This information is not readily available and providing it would incur disproportionate cost.The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) works to ensure cases are kept up to date and payments are processed accurately, with controls in place to minimise incorrect ...