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Secondly, once the amount has been established—either you have agreed it, we have changed our mind, or a tribunal has made a decision—we then seek to recover it. If you are on benefits or in PAYE employment, we can do direct deduction orders already from your benefits or employment. We are talking now about people who have already got to that point. We now want to recover the money; they are not engaging with us, and we cannot do it, so what do we do? At the moment, we can go to court for a third-party deduction order. What we want to do now is to apply the same principles to those who are not on benefits or in PAYE employment, who have the money but do not want to pay it, as we do to those who are in that position.