Delivering Better Enforcement of Spousal and Child Support Payments

The majority of those participating in the consultation supported a proposal to use the Internet to seek the public’s help in locating payors who have persistently failed to make support payments. [...] The majority of those participating in the consultation also supported the proposal to allow MEP to hold money seized from a payor for future payments after outstanding arrears are paid when the payor has persistently failed to make payments. [...] As part of a larger initiative to improve the program, the Department of Justice is considering changes to the Maintenance Enforcement Act. [...] One of the proposed changes to the Act would allow MEP to use a dedicated website to publish the names, photographs and other identifying information of payors who have persistently failed to make support payments and are unwilling to work with the program. [...] This would ensure that support payments can continue to be made to the recipient in cases where the payor is absent and unwilling to pay or to work with the program.