The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has recently published figures on the performance of the Child Support Agency (CSA).
The figures show that:
- The CSA collected or arranged a total of £1,159.6m in the 12 months to the end of June. That figure includes £123m in recovered arrears as the Agency continued to maximise the use of its enforcement powers.
- The courts imposed suspended prison sentences on more than 1,000 parents who refused to pay child maintenance during 2010-11. A further 165 received suspended driving bans.
- More than £2.0 million has now been forcibly deducted from the bank accounts of indebted parents under powers commenced in 2009. Around 950 parents have been told they are at risk of losing their homes if they do not pay.
- A record 868,700 children are now benefiting from CSA payments.