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Old 08-04-2008, 08:14   #1
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Child Benefit

I see its gone up 70p a week as of this week
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Old 08-04-2008, 08:23   #2
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wooooooohoooooooooooo (not) lol
does that buy a loaf of bread or milk nowadays lol
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Old 08-04-2008, 08:56   #3
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Is that per child?? Or is a lesser ammount for the 2nd child?
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Old 08-04-2008, 09:34   #4
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i dunno Em, i was getting £18.10 a week for reece and now i get £18.80, you should have had a letter already, i got mine about a month ago
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Old 08-04-2008, 09:40   #5
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Is that per child?? Or is a lesser ammount for the 2nd child?

45p for second child if I recall correctly.
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Old 08-04-2008, 10:03   #6
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Steady girls, dont show too much excitement, and dont spend it all at once, they will soon steal it back, in triplicate!
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Old 08-04-2008, 10:10   #7
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lol @derek
yeah aint that the truth !
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Old 08-04-2008, 10:32   #8
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It is a fairly recent innovation to pay anything for a 1st child.
That change happened during my parenting of an 'only one'.
It is expensive to raise a child, but everyone has the choice of whether to have them.

There are better ways to hand out public money,- by not giving it to those families who dont need it, and increasing the payout to those that do.

Family Allowance (as it was called) was a government tool to encourage an increase in population.

Do we really want that nowadays?
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Old 08-04-2008, 14:40   #9
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It is a fairly recent innovation to pay anything for a 1st child.
That change happened during my parenting of an 'only one'.
It is expensive to raise a child, but everyone has the choice of whether to have them.

There are better ways to hand out public money,- by not giving it to those families who dont need it, and increasing the payout to those that do.

Family Allowance (as it was called) was a government tool to encourage an increase in population.

Do we really want that nowadays?
We've had this conversation on here before, Margaret.

I think that child benefit should be means tested. I think it's ludicrous that it is given to everyone with a child.

This means that the likes of Madonna, Cherie Blair, Victoria Beckham are eligible for it. What do they need child benefit for? What a waste of money.
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Old 08-04-2008, 14:43   #10
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wow thats a huge amount,think ill book a holiday lol
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Old 08-04-2008, 14:51   #11
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We've had this conversation on here before, Margaret.

I think that child benefit should be means tested. I think it's ludicrous that it is given to everyone with a child.

This means that the likes of Madonna, Cherie Blair, Victoria Beckham are eligible for it. What do they need child benefit for? What a waste of money.

why are they not entitle to it, im sure famous people pays tax as well
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Old 08-04-2008, 14:54   #12
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wait untill it goes up to £20 next year!!

I think ill book that holiday!!
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Old 08-04-2008, 14:55   #13
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why are they not entitle to it, im sure famous people pays tax as well

It's not the fact that they are famous, more the fact that they have a lot of money. To me giving child benefit to people who earn over a certain amount is money squandered.
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Old 08-04-2008, 15:03   #14
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It's not the fact that they are famous, more the fact that they have a lot of money. To me giving child benefit to people who earn over a certain amount is money squandered.
I'm in agreement with you on this one.

I didn't know it at the time, but apparently my dad used to send our Family Allowance, as it then was, to a charity that paid for children in the third world to have cataract operations to restore their sight.

It does seem strange that it isn't means tested. I'm sure 99% of my fellow fee paying school mates didn't need it either, yet we were all entitled to it.

I was always suprised that Mrs Thatcher stopped free school milk, yet allowed this benefit for all to continue.
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Old 08-04-2008, 15:05   #15
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I'm in agreement with you on this one.

I didn't know it at the time, but apparently my dad used to send our Family Allowance, as it then was, to a charity that paid for children in the third world to have cataract operations to restore their sight.
Aaaah what a lovely thing to do.
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