CSA caseload reduced by 200,000 from March to June 2019
The Child Support Agency's caseload continues to reduce. According to figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions, the number of CSA cases held on CSA or Child Maintenance Service IT systems decreased from 472,700 in March 2019 to 260,900 in June 2019. The reduction in caseload is due to the closure of cases as outlined in the child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy.
The CSA historical debt balance continues to reduce. The amount of CSA debt held on CSA or CMS IT systems has decreased from £2,040 million in March 2019 to £915 million in June 2019. Debt owed to Government and debt which has no reasonable chance of being collected is being written off.
Between 13 December 2018, when the compliance and arrears strategy work started, and 30 June 2019:
- The CSA wrote to 135,100 parents with care to ask if they want a last attempt to be made to try to collect the debt owed to them.
- 398,000 cases on the CSA IT system with non-paying historical debt have had the debt adjusted or written off. These cases had system records showing a total debt value of £1,418 million. Of this £644m was owed to government only.
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18/10/19