Can clients ask for their case to be moved to the current child maintenance scheme?
A. No. It is not possible to ask for a case to be transferred to the current scheme, the only reason people will move to the current scheme is if their case becomes linked to a new child maintenance application made on or after 3 March 2003. For example, we will move the first child maintenance case from the old scheme to the current scheme so that both cases are set up on the same scheme if: • a parent with care already receives child maintenance for one child • they make an application for another child on or after 3 March 2003, and • that child has a different non-resident parent to the child the parent with care already receives child maintenance for. Another example when we will move a child maintenance case to the current scheme is if: • a non-resident parent is paying child maintenance under the old scheme • they have a child with another person, and • that person makes a claim for child maintenance through us on or after 3 March 2003. Sometimes a case can be moved to the curren
