The services of the Child Support Agency in the North will be curtailed this week in the latest of a series of strikes by civil servants.
Members of the public service union NIPSA are staging a week-long strike. The dispute, ongoing since December, centres on pay issues.
The Department of Employment and Learning's supplier services branch, the Labour Relations Agency and the Social Security office in Coleraine, Co Derry, are also due to be hit in the strike involving over 200 NIPSA members.
The Department of Social Development said the CSA would maintain as full a service as possible during the five days of action. Contingency plans have been put in place to minimise disruption, said a spokesperson.
