When was csa set up

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You must be entitled to Child Benefit for the child. They'll explain how you can get maintenance. You'll also need to give enough information for the CMS to identify and find the paying parent. For example, you must give their address if you know it. Child Maintenance Choices is a free, impartial service. The team will talk you through all the facts, in confidence, about child maintenance, whatever your circumstances. It will provide support and advice to help you decide how to make the best child maintenance arrangement for you and your family.

If after your discussions, you decide not to arrange child maintenance yourself, the Choices team will help you to apply to use the Child Maintenance Service. All new applications for maintenance with the CMS are made under the Child Maintenance Scheme and charges could apply. When speaking with the Choices team about applying to CMS for making or receiving payments, you will need to provide information about you and your family.

This includes:. A full list of what you need to provide is included in the child maintenance application checklist:. The information you give can be used to set up and manage child maintenance payments. It can also sometimes find the paying parent. Contact the Child Maintenance Service for information about how it uses and stores your information.

You will usually get a response from CMS about your application for Child Maintenance within six weeks. Public resistance and high levels of criticism lead to the new Labour Government introducing a simplified system in March known as CS2. This system was to use a new, simplified formula to calculate the liability for maintenance.

Alongside this more straightforward process, the Government invested millions of pounds in a new IT system. Alas, the vision of a simple, efficient system was never realised. It was Government's intention to migrate all Old Rules CS1 cases to the new CS2 system — but the system never proved itself to be stable enough and the idea was eventually abandoned.

The UK now had to manage with two very different systems of calculating child maintenance.