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Change child maintenance policy in regards to partners child benefit.

Submitted on Wednesday 16th February 2022

Rejected on Monday 21st February 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change child maintenance policy in regards to partners child benefit.

Petition Details

As it stands the paying parent can have the child maintenance they pay reduced on the grounds of their partner receiving child benefits. This can cause detrimental effects on finances and wellbeing of the residents parent who is the sole care provider.

Additional Information

Action is needed to review the chid benefit reduction policy that effects the amount the residents parent is paid in child maintenance.

A strong recommendation to propose that the paying parents house hold is means tested, because in many cases the paying parent is not the biological father of their partner child/children, the paying parent and partner are in receipt of two or more incomes in comparison to the single resident parent that may not be able to work or can only work part time.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you're concerned about reductions to the amount of child maintenance a non-resident parent is required to pay if their partner is in receipt of child benefit, but we're not sure if you would like the Government to stop these reductions from being made to child maintenance calculations, or do something else.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

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