The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) and Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1996
These Regulations amend the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992 to provide for an increase in the minimum amount of child support maintenance payable, and accordingly, by virtue of regulation 28 of those Regulations, of the amount payable by an absent parent in receipt of income support or other prescribed benefit. The amount is increased to 2 times 5 per cent of the income support personal allowance for a single claimant aged not less than 25. Consequential amendments are made to paragraph 7A of Schedule 9 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987, which deals with deductions from benefit and direct payment to third parties. In particular, provision is made that, in certain circumstances, the amount to be deducted is one half of the amount otherwise deductible.