Has anyone had to switch their child maintenance from direct pay to collect and pay? Does anyone know if the paying parent needs to keep making the payments direct until the collect and pay is set up? Child Maintenance said it takes a few weeks to set up and it’s too late for me to call them back today to ask but he is saying he wont be paying now until it’s set up making more arrears. We’ve always done Direct pay but still had a child maintenance account from day one but die to him being inconsistent i’d had enough and reported missed payments and requested to change it to collect and pay. They said it would take a few weeks to set up properly and that it says on the account may not be correct straight away. I forgot to ask if he is to keep paying me directly or not until they start taking it from his wage. I’m just absolutely sick of this back and forth about money and only want to speak to him about our child directly.