Make child maintenance deductions from an employee's pay

Updating your payment schedule

Guide

You’ll get a monthly payment schedule by post after you’ve been sent a deduction from earnings order (DEO).

It will tell you all your employees who have a DEO and the amount due for each employee.

You must send an updated payment schedule to the Child Maintenance Service if you cannot send the full deduction amount.

You must include how much you’ve deducted and why you’ve not been able to deduct the full amount.

How to send an updated payment schedule

You can update your payment schedule online.

You can also fill in the form you received in the post and send or email it to the Child Maintenance Service Employer Payment Team.

Child Maintenance Service Employer Payment Team
2012scheme.employerservice@dwp.gov.uk

Child Maintenance Service Employer Payment Team
Child Maintenance Service 21
Mail Handling Site A
Wolverhampton
WV98 2BU

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    0800 232 1961
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    18001 0800 171 2345
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