As part of the governments support process through the coronavirus pandemic the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) announced a temporary stop to the deduction of benefit debt repayments through Direct Earnings attachments (DEAs) and in that respect employers were contacted to suspend payments for three months commencing with April 2020 through to and including June.
Within the letters themselves there was no time frame and rather than suspending these should be cancelled and have recently confirmed that employers will be contacted directly again with a further letter to confirm when outstanding DEA deductions should resume.
As such you should continue with the current arrangement until told to do differently as this is due to the variety of circumstances that have occurred during the furlough period and that some have now different arrangements in place.
