About Child Maintenance in the UK
Within the UK, child maintenance is financial support towards a child's everyday living costs. Child maintenance is usually classed as regular, reliable financial support that helps towards a child’s everyday living costs until they reach adulthood. Parents can set up a child maintenance agreement between themselves by making a family-based arrangement. They can also ask the Child Support Agency (CSA) or courts to get involved if required. Find out about child maintenance and how to make an arrangement that can work for both parties.
It is important that as a known donor you know what your legal and financial responsibilities are in relation to child maintenance until the child reaches adulthood. Click on About Child Maintenance in the UK to find out more.
Child Support Agency
Child maintenance is regular, reliable financial support that helps towards a child’s everyday living costs. The parent without the main day-to-day care of the child (the non-resident parent) pays child maintenance to the parent with the main day-to-day care (the parent with care).
Find out or claim child benefit
Child Benefit is a tax-free payment that you can claim for your child. It is usually paid every four weeks but in some cases can be paid weekly, and there are separate rates for each child. The payment can be claimed by anyone who qualifies, whatever their income or savings.
Get Your Healthy Start Vouchers!
With Healthy Start, you can get free vouchers every week which you swap for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme
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