Chapter 1 - Abbreviations

Abbreviations

AiB Account in Bankruptcy (Scotland)

AFIP Armed Forces Independence Payment

APM Advance Payment of Maintenance

ASHE Annual Survey of Hourly Earnings

ATNIC Automated Tax or Calculators

BAU Business As Usual

BFPO British Forces Post Offce

BHOCA Bank Head Offce Collections Account

CA Carer’s Allowance

Children And Families Court Advisory Support CAFCASS Services

CCJ County Court Judgment

CHB Child Beneft

CIFBA Child supported under a Family Based Arrangement

CiS Child in Scotland

CMG Child Maintenance Group

CMS Child Maintenance Service

CPO Court Presenting Offcer

CRA Credit Reference Agency

CSA

DA Domestic Abuse

DD Direct Debit

DEO Deduction from Earnings Order DER Deduction from Earnings Request

DFB Deduction From Beneft

DLA Disability Living Allowance

DLO Dead Letter Offce

DM Decision Maker

DMA Decision Making & Appeals

DMD Default Maintenance Decision

DMG Decision Making Guidance

DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNSP Direct Non-Scheme Payments

DO Deduction Order

DVLA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

DVS Driver Validation Service

DWP Department for Work and Pensions

ED Effective Date

EET Estimation of Earnings Tool

EIM Employment Income Manuals

ESA Employment Support Allowance

FCA Financial Conduct Authority

FIU Financial Investigations Unit

FSA Financial Services Authority

FTE Full Time Education

GCSE General Certifcate of Secondary Education

GDPR General data Protection Regulations

GP General Practitioner

GRO General Registrars’ Offce HMCTS Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service

HMPS Her Majesty’s Prison Service

HMRC Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

IB Incapacity beneft

ICE Independent Case Examiner

IED initial Effective Date

IIDB Industrial Injuries Disablement Beneft

IMA Interim Maintenance Assessment

IO Investigating Offcer

IOPN Index Of Proprietors Names

IS

IVA Individual Voluntary Agreement

IVF In Vitro Fertilisation

JR Judicial Review

JSA Job Seekers Allowance

LA Local Authority

LO Liability Order

LSDO Lump Sum Deduction Order

MA Maternity Allowance

MC Maintenance Calculation

MOC Method of Collection

MOD Ministry of Defence

MOP Method of Payment

MP Member of Parliament

MR Mandatory Reconsideration

NDR Normal Deduction Rate NEA New Enterprise Allowance

NHS National Health Service

NINO National Insurance Number

NOMS National Offender Management Service

NRP Non-Resident Parent

OFS Order For Sale

OGM On-Going Maintenance

ONS Offce of National Statistics

PAYE Pay As You Earn

PCIC Periodic Current Income Check

PEP Protected Earnings Proportion

PeWC Person With Care

PHSO Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman

PHV Private Hire Vehicles

PILON Payment In Lieu Of Notice

PIP Personal Independence Payment

POCA Post Offce Card Account

PSG Public Sector Gateway

PWC Parent With Care

QC Qualifying Child

QYP Qualifying Young Person

RAS Relief At Source

RDE Recovery from Deceased Estates

RDO Regular Deduction Order

REMO Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders

RJOF Register of Judgments, Orders & Fines ROC Relevant Other Child

RTI Real Time Information

SADO Setting Aside Disposition Order

SAR Self-assessment Return

SATR Self-assessment Tax Return

SDA Severe Disablement Allowance

SMoTS Simple Money Transmission Service

SO Standing Order

SoS Secretary of State

SP Sick Pay

SPC State

TFL Transport For London

TL Team Leader

TPDO Third Party Debt Order

UC

WP Widow’s Pension

WPA Widow’s Pension Allowance

WWP War Widow’s Pension