Sending payments to the Maintenance Enforcement Program (MEP) can be easy. You can help your employees avoid late payment penalties, interest and collection actions by ensuring payments are sent to MEP as soon as pay deductions are made. We would like to help you save time and money by encouraging you to send payments in one of these three ways:

Telephone or Internet banking

If this method of payment is new to you, you may want to contact your bank to discuss setting up telephone or internet payment options.

If you already pay bills through telephone or Internet banking:

1. Select Alberta Maintenance Enforcement Program as the payee through your bank’s telephone or Internet payment service.
2. When asked for a payee account, customer or billing number, enter the employee’s seven-digit MEP file number.
3. Select MEP from your list of payees, and enter the amount of money to be sent to MEP.
4. When sending money on behalf of more than one employee, you will need to enter more than one payee. The employee’s name is not required by the bank. For example, if you are sending money to MEP for two employees whose MEP file numbers are 1234-567 and 7654-321, you would enter:
   
   

   Payee	Account/Customer/Billing number
   Alberta Maintenance Enforcement Program	1234567
   Alberta Maintenance Enforcement Program	7654321

Direct Deposit or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)

Through your bank or accounting software, you can deposit money directly into MEP’s bank account. Once the direct deposit is made, information (employee name, MEP file number and the amount of money deposited) about the transaction(s) must be sent to the attention of “The Revenue Supervisor, Revenue Unit, Maintenance Enforcement Program, Edmonton, Alberta” by email: just.meprevenue@gov.ab.ca or by fax to 780-401-7570 (dial 310-0000 for toll-free access anywhere in Alberta).

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) software or in-house IT setup is required to use this method of payment. Most banks or payroll service providers offer their clients an EDI solution. MEP can receive deposit and remittance details through the standard EDI 820 format. By using EDI, your organization will save time and no longer be required to email or fax remittance details to MEP. Contact your bank representative or your payroll service provider for more information about EDI set up.

To set up direct deposit or EDI, you’ll need the following MEP bank account information: