Guidance

Child maintenance: how receiving parents can ask us to consider other income: factsheet

This factsheet explains how to ask us to consider certain types of income when working out child maintenance – 'applying for a variation'.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 1 October 2013
• Last updated: 27 October 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Variations explained: a guide for receiving parents

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78153-726-8, CMSB025GB

PDF, 197 KB, 2 pages

Variations explained: a guide for receiving parents

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78153-726-8, CMSB025GB

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Details

Parents who receive child maintenance can ask us to consider certain types of income that are not included in the main rules for working out child maintenance. We call this ‘applying for a variation’. This factsheet explains:

• the types of income we can consider
• how parents can apply for a variation
• what effect this can have on the amount of child maintenance

We have also published a factsheet explaining how parents who pay child maintenance can ask us to consider other income.

Find out more about child maintenance.

Published 1 October 2013
Last updated 27 October 2023 + show all updates

1. 27 October 2023

   Published an updated version of the factsheet 'Variations explained: a guide for receiving parents'.

2. 1 October 2013

   First published.