Petition · past parliament · Department for Work and Pensions
Stop Deduction from Earnings Orders (DEO) for child maintenance debts
Closed
886 signatures
What the petition asks
The Government should stop child maintenance debts being collected by the Child Maintenance Service through Deduction from Earnings Orders (DEO). Instead the CMS should be required to engage with the paying parent and agree repayments based on affordability assessment.
Deduction of Earnings Orders are a controversial form of collection that take money from a Non-Resident Parent’s (NRP) earnings every month. The principle behind this is that a parent who is refusing to pay has an order to make the deductions.
We call on the UK Government to understand the pressures this can put on NRPs and replace it with a process focusing on the affordability of payments through means testing for the paying parent.
We call on the UK Government to understand the pressures this can put on NRPs and replace it with a process focusing on the affordability of payments through means testing for the paying parent.
Timeline
| 28 Jul 2022 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 11 Feb 2023 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
886
Status
Closed
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Opened
28 Jul 2022
Closed
11 Feb 2023
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.