Submitted on Wednesday 7th February 2024
Rejected on Thursday 15th February 2024
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Change how Child Maintenance is Calculated based on the costs of raising a Child
Child Maintenance is currently worked out purely on a paying parents Gross income. Information like Income after tax, cost of living, outgoings and many more important factors aren’t taken into consideration in the calculation.
The way Child Maintenance is calculated is not based on a fair calculation of how much it costs to raise a child. It is simply deemed that just because a paying parent earns more, they should in turn pay more for the upbringing of their child, even though that child is not costing any more to raise. These are just a few examples, but When a paying parent pays a higher tax amount, that is not taken into consideration, because their gross income is used, and not what they actually take home. If a parent pays for court proceedings to enable them to even see their children, the huge cost of this isn’t taken into account. Paying parents are getting into huge amounts of debt because of the unfair way these payments are Calculated.
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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 are concerned about how child maintenance is currently calculated, but it's not clear if you want calculations to be based on the cost of raising a child, or the to take into account additional factors about the financial situation of the paying parent.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Base child maintenance calculation on net pay: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/655868
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