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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)

Relevant Departments

Tagged with

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

Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 516 signatures in total, with signatories from 314 constituencies. That makes it the 427th most popular open petition, and the 10,665th most popular of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 47% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 3% (low).

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Notes on geography

Signatures by constituency and region don't necessarily add up to the total number of signatures. That's because the petitions system doesn't validate postcodes, and some people mistype them. And without a valid postcode, a signature cannot be allocated to any particular place.

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