What is a DEO (Deduction of Earnings Order) from the CSA?
April 30, 2008
A DEO is a deduction of earnings order from the child support agency. This is when they contact the employer of the non resident parent to get the money they want removed from their earnings BEFORE they are paid to the employee.
The CSA has full authority to do this and does not need to go to a court in order to get approval. If an employer refuses to comply the CSA can impose a fine upon them.
From the child support agency’s website.
Although the decision to apply a DEO is taken by us and not the courts you would be committing an offence under section 32(8) of the Child Support Act 1991 if you do not comply with a DEO. This could lead to a prosecution and a fine.
If you appeal a DEO the CSA will generally not suspend the deduction of earnings order while the appeal is being heard, and they also do not care how much money you will be left to live on.
Speaking to payments department will not help as they’re sole interest is in recovering money they believe they are owed by the non resident parent.
Many fathers have been left with no option but to quit their jobs when faced with a DEO as they simply do not have enough money to live on.
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When an employer receives a DEO it has a protected earnings rate of 60% of the NRP’s net income included on it. The employer is not allowed to breach that.
That’s right John, you do have a protected income of 60%. A DEO shouldn’t go near that as the maximum you should be deducted is 25% if you have three or more kids, unless of course you’re in arrears, in which case the CSA will try and claw back all of that inside 12 months.
They don’t actually note that the 60% rule isn’t breached, and your employer might not notice it either. You need to keep an eye on that one yourself, or you could end up with nothing at the end of the month. The CSA wouldn’t care.
[...] children. He is currently having £300 per month deducted direct from his wages as the result of a DEO (deduction of earnings order). It’s not that I’m refusing to pay, I have never refused to pay. I have had regular contact [...]
is there a way of avoiding arrears…I have my son living with me and have done for 3 years, yet I am hounded for 14K they say I owe. Since my son turned 19 in may (he is a full time student) they have just rang my boss to find out my salary (a meager 22K.) the awfull person at the csa demanded 500 per month…impossible I have no money, I rent in furnished accommodation, am in debt to the tune of 35K and generally in poor order….any spare change goes to my sons education.
I have resigned my job…one I love, I did say I could pay maybe £40 per month but that would leave the electric unpaid and no college trips for my son…she just demanded £500…I said I will be better off on the dole why can we not make a deal? alas not a hope…unless someone knows different?
I have been told that if you live with another person as girlfreind / boyfreind then they can take monies from them? that would see the end of my relationship and make both me and my son homeless.
Can they freeze you bank account?
Can anyone help?
Help I feel like I am drowning, I feel like drowning…my son is in such a terrible position, we live like paupers in rented accommodation, she paid her mortgage and has no income and incapacity bens…..how come some one with such capital (house300K) get bens ? its a hideous nightmare that is ripping this family apart.
Why as loving attentive (be it poor) fathers are expected to be treated like dirt by this vile organisation.