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You would make an arrangement for reasons such as:

• child maintenance improves your child’s financial security, contributing to everyday costs such as food, clothing, housing, and school needs
• it does not reduce benefits such as Universal Credit. Child maintenance payments do not affect any benefits you receive and are not counted as taxable income.
• it helps share the cost of raising children fairly and recognises that both parents remain financially responsible even if they do not live with the child
• it reduces conflict and uncertainty when parents have a clear, agreed approach towards paying child maintenance