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Originally Posted by Lilly
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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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.