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.
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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
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.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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