Child maintenance: how we review cases every year: leaflet
This leaflet explains the process for reviewing child maintenance cases every year and how it affects paying parents and receiving parents.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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Every year, we check to make sure that the paying parent is paying the right amount of child maintenance to the receiving parent. We look again at the paying parent’s income, benefits and other circumstances. This helps us to work out if the amount of child maintenance they pay for the next 12 months should stay the same, or if it should go up or down. We call this the annual review.
This leaflet explains about the annual review process and how it affects paying parents and receiving parents.
If you can’t find the information you need in this leaflet, contact the Child Maintenance Service.
Last updated 8 April 2024 + show all updates
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Updated 'The annual review – how it works: A guide for paying parents and receiving parents' HTML version. A PDF version will be published later.
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Contact details updated to now link to the main 'Contact the Child Maintenance Service' page.
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Published an updated version of the leaflet 'The annual review – how it works: A guide for paying parents and receiving parents'.
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First published.