Question follow-through · 7621
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of the 25 per cent threshold applied to changes in income for recalculating child maintenance liability.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of the 25 per cent threshold applied to changes in income for recalculating child maintenance liability.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2026
Answer published
Currently, where a paying parent's income is at least 25% different than the figure obtained from HM Revenue and Customs or no figure is available, the Child Maintenance Service will consider whether the liability should be based on the parent's current i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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