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Child maintenance needs to be based on Net pay not Gross pay.

Submitted on Tuesday 29th July 2025

Rejected on Friday 8th August 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Child maintenance needs to be based on Net pay not Gross pay.

Petition Details

Base child maintenance on Net pay after taxes and contributions

Additional Information

Many people are in financial hardship as their payments are based on what they earn before contributions making the amount payable completely unaffordable


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action:

Calculate child maintenance from net pay, not gross pay
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730665

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