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Hi,
If you have permanent PAYE job then they expect you to report change if income increases or drops by 25% or more. If you don't report thr increase then they like to backdate from the date this change happened, and you end up paying much more because of arrears.
I think, in theory, there is a fine if you fail to disclose, so you are best doing so, and these days, PAYE is reported to HMRC monthly, so it's entirely possible that CMS are being fed this automatically (would make sense really).
If you have been avoiding overtime, that implies that you don't need the money now, in which case, you could look at doing overtime and putting that extra income into a pension, that way it's legitimately excluded from the maintenance calculation.
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