Change the law of how child maintenance payments are calculated.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Change the law on how an individual persons income is used for the purpose of calculating child maintenance payments. Currently payments are calculated based on income submitted from hmrc. This figure may include benefits like company cars which in many jobs are issued as mandatory for the job.

I have a job which comes with a company car. I do not pay for or keep the car if I leave my job. It is provided for the purpose of my job and I cannot opt out of it. My income is actually £31,620pa but because of the company car my child maintenance payments are calculated on my income and company car combined meaning my child maintenance payments are based on an income of over £36,700pa. Also abolish the 25% tolerance rule is this not fair on many people.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Change method to work out child maintenance to be based on net not gross income

Timeline

17 Jul 2020	Petition opened for signatures
17 Sep 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 17 Sep 2020

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