United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 7540
Children: Maintenance
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7 October 2024
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15 October 2024 · Answer
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15 October 2024
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Child Maintenance Service has made of the potential merits of reducing the threshold for unearned income for paying parents from £2,500 to £1,000 in line with HMRC’s annual tax-free
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7 October 2024
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Child Maintenance Service has made of the potential merits of reducing the threshold for unearned income for paying parents from £2,500 to £1,000 in line with HMRC’s annual tax-free
Source: Commons
15 October 2024
Answer
The threshold for unearned income was originally set at £2,500 to ensure that this represented a significant source of a paying parent’s total annual income. This ensures that minor changes in unearned income do not interfere with the efficiency of the sy...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-10-07/7540
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1731918
- uk · wq-1731918 · source updated 15 October 2024