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Difference between revisions of "Enforcing Support Orders and Agreements"

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====Cancelling or restricting the payor’s passport or driver’s licence====
====Cancelling or restricting the payor’s passport or driver’s licence====
When a payor falls $3,000 or more behind in support payments and FMEP has been unable to collect the support, it can:
When a payor falls $3,000 or more behind in support payments and FMEP has been unable to collect the support, the program has additional steps it can take. FMEP can ask the federal government to suspend or deny a payor’s passport. As well, FMEP can tell ICBC to cancel or refuse to renew a payor’s current driver’s licence, or refuse to give or renew a payor’s [https://www.icbc.com/vehicle-registration/buy-vehicle/Pages/Registering-a-vehicle-in-B-C-.aspx motor vehicle licence] (without a vehicle licence, a payor can’t buy vehicle insurance).
 
* ask the federal government to '''suspend or deny''' a payor’s passport
* tell ICBC to:
** '''cancel''' a payor’s current driver’s licence
** '''refuse to renew''' a payor’s driver’s licence
** '''refuse to give or renew''' a payor’s [https://www.icbc.com/vehicle-registration/buy-vehicle/Pages/Registering-a-vehicle-in-B-C-.aspx motor vehicle licence] (without a vehicle licence, a payor can’t buy vehicle insurance)


These are serious steps. FMEP takes them only after having tried unsuccessfully to collect the support payments in other ways.
These are serious steps. FMEP takes them only after having tried unsuccessfully to collect the support payments in other ways.
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