Question follow-through · 21224

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of altering the income change threshold on child maintenance allowance reviews.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
13 Jan 2025 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of altering the income change threshold on child maintenance allowance reviews.

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Where a paying parent's income is at least 25 per cent different than the figure obtained from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for the last available full tax year, or no figure is available, the Child Maintenance Service will consider whether the liability...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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