Work and Pensions - Fourth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 7 March 2007.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Background to the inquiry
2 Private arrangements
Advice services
Target groups
Current capacity of advice provision
Form of advice
A one-stop shop
Mediation and counselling
Funding of advice
The role of the courts
Ancillary relief packages
12 month rule
Registering private agreements
Joint birth registration
Collection
Deduction from Earnings Order
3 The new assessment process
Parent with care's income
Self employed
25% income change and the annual income variation review
HMRC
Verification of income and misreporting by non-resident parents
Shared care
50:50 shared care
Informal payments
Charging
4 Parents on benefits
Benefits disregard
Child poverty effects
Work incentives
Level of "significant" increase
Payments for non-resident parents on benefit
5 Enforcement
Administrative enforcement
Severity of sanctions
Reputation of C-MEC
Monopoly of enforcement
6 Transition
Routes into and out of C-MEC
Principles of transition
Timescale
Role of IT
Current public information on transition
7 Debt
Interim Maintenance Assessments
Factoring debt
The 6 year rule, maladministration and compensation
Informal payments and debt
Debt owed to the State
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex 1
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Formal minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
Reports from the Work and Pensions Committee 2006-07
Reports from the Work and Pensions Committee 2005-06
List of Evidence
Wednesday 17 January 2007
Wednesday 24 January 2007
Monday 5 February 2007
Written Evidence
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