Children: Maintenance

(asked on 5th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the cost of raising children of different ages for the purposes of calculating child maintenance payments.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 7th July 2021

Child maintenance is calculated based on several factors including the number of children to ensure that the calculation is fair and affordable. The Department continues to keep the policies under review.

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