The Child Support Agency is the government agency which dealt with child support, as it was then called, before the introduction of the Child Maintenance Scheme in 2012. It no longer takes on new cases. The agency continues to manage existing cases which were initiated before 2012 and will continue to do so until they are phased out. The calculation of child support, as administered by the Child Support Agency, differs from the calculation of child maintenance as administered by the Child Maintenance Service.