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Include Child Maintenance as Income in Universal Credit and Means-Tested Benefit

Submitted by Robert Jones on Friday 28th November 2025

Published on Monday 12th January 2026

Current status: Open

Open until: Sunday 12th July 2026

Current Signatures: 516
(count is updated approximately hourly)

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Access ~ Benefits ~ Child ~ Child maintenance ~ childcare ~ childcare costs ~ Children ~ Counting ~ Ensure ~ Fairness ~ Fairs ~ household income ~ Maternity ~ Partner ~ paying ~ Payment ~ Reviewed ~ testing ~ The Universal ~ Universal Credit ~ Universities

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Include Child Maintenance as Income in Universal Credit and Means-Tested Benefit

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