Child Maintenance Service

Clients

If you are an individual who pays or receives child maintenance, click on this section.

Employers

If you are an employer who pays your employees' child maintenance through their earnings, click on this section.

If your case is based in Northern Ireland, please click here.

The Department for Work and Pensions is taking steps to make sure it can continue to deliver essential services during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, while protecting its staff and customers’ wellbeing. This will unfortunately affect some of the other services it provides including the Child Maintenance Service.

We are moving into delivering a full service and have published answers to some of the questions we are most often asked in the links below.

• Paying parent information
• Receiving parent information
• Employer information

Visit www.gov.uk/manage-child-maintenance-case to find out more about how to manage your child maintenance service case.

Visit www.gov.uk/coronavirus for the latest advice about coronavirus.