[Mancie]

Originally Posted by garinda

There were boys at my school from wealthy backgrounds, one of whose already well off mother used to pay for my friend's tennis lesson at Whalley Tennis Club with the child benefit money, and I also had another school friend whose mum kept it in a tin in the kitchen...to pay the gardener.

Totally true, and in my opinion totally wrong, when that money could have gone to many other children in much greater need.

Leave it.. don't change it..leave it as it is..a basic payment..if you start messing around with child benefit you are slipping down a road the Tories have been trying to pave for 50yrs.. don't to go down that road.