Require regular reviews and inflation increases for child maintenance.

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

Require automatic reviews of all child maintenance cases and update legacy cases from the Child Support Act 1991. Payments should be recalculated using current income and adjusted for inflation so children receive fair financial support.

Some parents still receive child maintenance amounts set in 1991, such as £7 per week, which has never increased. This does not reflect the cost of living or raising a child today. Without mandatory reviews, payments remain outdated and unfair, placing financial pressure on the receiving parent and failing to support the child properly.

Why it was rejected

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

This is effectively a duplicate of a petition that is already open which you may wish to sign instead:

Require child maintenance payments to increase by inflation & review enforcement

Timeline

14 Feb 2026	Petition opened for signatures
20 Mar 2026	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Mar 2026

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