Children: Maintenance
Commons · Question 98452 · Tabled 9 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Max Wilkinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his department is taking to ensure that members of the armed forces are not penalised in child maintenance claims where they are unable to meet contact night thresholds due to the obligations
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 17 Dec 2025
The aim of shared care arrangements is to make an allowance for direct costs incurred by ‘non-resident parents’ when children are staying with them for part of the time. For shared care to be considered in child maintenance calculations, the paying parent...