The new Child Support Scheme

Reference guide: Go to the information you need

About the changes to the Child Support Scheme

• Why the Scheme is changing
• A new way of working out child support
• What are the changes?
• What you need to do now
• Information and support
• Useful contacts
• New child support terms

• Your income
• Self-support amount
• Costs of children
• Costs of children tables
• The new formula: different family situations
• How we work out your child support
• Recognising care of the children
• Estimating child support
• Child support tables

• Family Tax Benefit (& here, here, here, here)
• Other types of family assistance, including Child Care Benefit
• Estimating family assistance
• Child support agreements
• Minimum child support payments
• Getting back on track after separation
• If you decide to get back together

• Collecting and enforcing child support
• If you don’t agree with a CSA decision

• One child support assessment, no other dependent children
• Two or more assessments
• Second families and step-children (& here)
• Non-parent carers
• International customers
• If you receive income support, including DVA payments (& here)
• Parents on low incomes (& here)