One of the many onerous duties that payroll departments perform on behalf of government agencies is the collection of money due for child maintenance or court orders. Needless to say, there is a set of arcane and labyrinthine rules to be followed.
The consequences of not deducting a court order can appear severe - a summons can be issued naming the payroll manager personally and demanding they appear and explain why. Thankfully this is rare.
Since everyone seems to recognise that the CSA hasn't really been working out, a new agency has been created. It's called CMEC. As such agencies do, they have decided that they want to make some changes to what is required of employers - and since many employers use payroll software, the implication is that the software providers will need to make changes.
CMEC published what they called "Business Requirements" on their site some time in July. Unfortunately I missed it at the time. Since then they have removed the document that had the requirements in from their website without explanation.
With any luck the requirements will be back soon. In brief they cover some new admin rules and a new method of reporting data - all to be in place by April 2011. They have apparently promised that the final requirements will be available to software providers by October this year.
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