Payment agreement for child maintenance and other maintenance payments

If you have maintenance debts and are unable to pay the full amount at once, you can apply to pay the claim in instalments.

Does this apply to me?

This applies to you if you need a payment agreement because you have outstanding maintenance payments, or if you’ve received a claim to repay maintenance or advance maintenance payments that you were overpaid.

The monthly maintenance payment cannot be split into several payments. Nor can you get a payment agreement for extraordinary contributions.

 

Once the child maintenance payment scheme is established, there is often a backlog of due payments that the maintenance payer owes the maintenance recipients. This happens because the period for child maintenance starts with the date of the application. This means that payments are applied retrospectively, and you therefore have maintenance debt to pay.

When you receive the invoice for the maintenance debt, you can choose to pay the entire sum at once or you can spread the payments over several months through a payment agreement. You must pay the maintenance debt in addition to the regular monthly maintenance payment.

If you do not pay your maintenance debt, the claim may be collected via enforcement proceedings.

Paying maintenance in instalments

You must apply to pay in instalments.

Please note that you must continue to pay the maintenance amount as usual until you receive a response to your application. The due date is the 25th of each month.

 

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Paying in instalments

To submit the form for others, you’ll need access on behalf of the person or business you represent. You can find an overview of your roles and rights in your profile in Altinn (altinn.no).

To fill in and submit the form, you’ll need either:

  • the Altinn role Limited signing rights

or

  • the access package Collection

Contact Altinn – Help (altinn.no) if you have any problems with roles and rights.

  • Claims under NOK 100,000 must be paid within two years, and the monthly instalment must be at least NOK 500.
  • Claims of NOK 100,000 or more must be paid within four years.

You may propose a monthly instalment amount above the minimum amounts. We’ll consider your proposal against our criteria.

You cannot have received a notification of attachment proceedings for the claims you’re applying for a payment agreement for, and it must not have been decided that deductions will be made from your income.

You cannot appeal a payment agreement.

It’s important that you follow the agreement so your claim does not proceed to enforcement proceedings and a deduction from your income.

If you have serious debt problems

If you have large debts to other creditors as well as to the Tax Administration, you should apply for a joint agreement with your creditors, a debt settlement.