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UIN 7540

Children: Maintenance

answeredUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

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7 October 2024

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15 October 2024 · Answer

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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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  1. 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

  2. 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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