Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 98452
Children: Maintenance
Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025
Question
Max Wilkinson
Liberal Democrat — Cheltenham
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
Andrew WesternThe 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...
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