CSA acronyms

A question about : CSA acronyms

Every so often we see newbys asking what various things mean, and even people like me who have been dealing with the CSA for a few years now get occassionally stumped.

Suggestions for additions welcome and I will add them to this list:

NRP: Non resident parent
PWC: Parent with care
DEO: Deduction from Earnings Order
MEF: Maintenance Enquiry Form
IMA: Interim Maintenance Assessment
DP: Data Protection [file/s]
ICE: Independent Case Examiner
NRPP: Non Resident Parents Parner
SoS: Secretary of State
LO: Liability Order
CMEC: Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
C of C - Change of Circumstances
DO - Deduction Order (Banks/deposit takers)
DER - Deductions of Earnings Request
QC - Qualifying child
RO - Relevant other child
DM - Decision Maker
CM - Child Maintenance
CO - Charging Order
IMD - Interim Maintenance Decision
NQC - Non-qualifying Child
SC - Shared Care
PWCP - Parent with care partner
PeWC - Person With Care
DMD - Default Maintenance Decision
ROC - Relevant Other Child
MC - maintenance calculation
SUPSE - supersession (change to maintenance calc following a change in circs)
E/D - Effective date (date liability starts)
CHiB - Child Benefit

A big thank you to everyone has contributed.

Best answers:

• Well Done Borders Dude
  I'm sure someone posted this before remember the DP files
• Great idea - I didn't know MEF or IMA, and no doubt there are others that I don't know either.
  CSA_Help, is DP Data Protection?
• ICE! added!
• Any more for adding?
• C of C - Change of Circumstances
  DO - Deduction Order (Banks/deposit takers)
  DER - Deductions of Earnings Request
  QC - Qualifying child
  RO - Relevant other child
  DM - Decision Maker
  CM - Child Maintenance
  CO - Charging Order
  IMD - Interim Maintenance Decision
  NQC - Non-qualifying Child
  SC - Shared Care
  PWCP - Parent with care partner
• Well if its about the CSA,what about CRAP ? (sniggers.....)
• Here are some that would confuse me if I were reading my file (not all acronyms, some are just terms in general use)
  PeWC - Person With Care
  DMD - Default Maintenance Decision
  ROC - Relevant Other Child
  MC - maintenance calculation
  SUPSE - supersession (change to maintenance calculation following a change in circumstances)
  E/D - effective date (date liability starts)
  CHiB - the usual way they refer to Child Benefit
• Ive added the latest lot.
  I will give it a couple more days then I will ask one of Martins band of merry men and woman if one of them can make it a sticky, if others agree it would be useful ofcourse!
• Glad to see this has become a sticky - and it is really useful to have a list of the acronyms. When you read someone's post, it can be hard to understand if you don't know what the abbreviations mean. Thanks for the thread borders_dude
  ETA (another acronym!) - I've just read PILON on another thread, but I've no idea what this means. Can somebody tell me please?
  Thank you x
• Thank you x
• Up to 2 years ago I worked for the CSA - when we started they gave us a list of 240 commonly used acronyms - I wish I had kept it for you! Just incase anyone is wondering the diference between a DEO and a DER the former is to order maintenance direct from wages if you are paid via a UK based payroll, a DER is a request made via the armed forces payroll, as the CSA cannot demand the money from them, however I never had one turned down!
• There are a few new ones coming out now, with the 2012 scheme, eg: Paying Parent = Non Resident Parent
  Receiving Parent = Parent With Care