Child Benefit
 

I see its gone up 70p a week as of this week

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wooooooohoooooooooooo (not) lol
does that buy a loaf of bread or milk nowadays lol

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Is that per child?? Or is a lesser ammount for the 2nd child?

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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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45p for second child if I recall correctly.

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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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lol @derek
yeah aint that the truth !

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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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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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wow thats a huge amount,think ill book a holiday lol

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why are they not entitle to it, im sure famous people pays tax as well:D

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wait untill it goes up to £20 next year!!

I think ill book that holiday:rolleyes:!!

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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.

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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.

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Aaaah what a lovely thing to do. :)

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well i dont agree in that one sorry, if everyone is entitle to it then let them have it, they do earn loads of money thats true but how do u know they dont give this money away:confused:

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I have a hunch that they don't.

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My mother could'nt afford that, she got 11 shilling a week (55p) for me from age 4 to the age of 15 with no widows pension....free orange juice and cod liver oil...but sod all else....that was from 1944 to 1954.

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Well, obviously you'd spend it on your own children first but it's a lovely thing to do if you've got it spare.

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Cue - Monty Python Yorkshiremen :D
YouTube - Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

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Glad you think that's funny........If I turned out as miserable as you come across in your post's I think I would have something to worry about.
I think you have more time to dig out these little titbits as does your bosum buddy, to score points on your fellow members than the rest of the members who you choose to shoot down...or try.
One of these day's I love love to see a post "Margaret is happy" I fear that will be a long time coming.

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I'm lost here royboy, where does it say margaret is having a go at any other members... I'm a yorkshire lass and love the jokes and banter

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Come off it Roy - can't you see the funny side of life:confused:

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Have a good look at the forums..........It may take you a fair while but persevere.

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I can and do.............you come across as all serious when it affects you and light hearted when it affects anyone else.......be consistant

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Having been on here for 3 years now, think I have a good handle of what goes on on here, and one thing I have never done is zone in on any members and keep making digs at them over and over again... in fact I think I would find it rather tiresome :rolleyes:

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Can I nominate this for next years awards please. "Most ironic post of the year " :D

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At least you've got your rise this week - i have to wait till next week to get mine.

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So do I......I have crossed swords with the main protagonist many times and that is not Margaret....I have been accused of not having a legitimate parentage one occasion, again not Margaret....Zoning in on a particular member is happening in reverse as far as I am concerned and quite cleverly turned round to make me the villain.....Margaret in her wisdom tries to cover over the weakness of the offending member and comes to his rescue, and that offends me........I like this forum and intend to stay that is why I am a supporter...Friendly banter is one thing but down right ignorance is another...and I too find it tiresome.

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hmmmmm wonder who you are on about... wouldn't be my dear matey would it :p

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The point I was trying to make was that not all children actually need Child Benefit. I'd rather it be taken off those who don't actually rely on it, which a lot of parents don't, and target it at those children who actually do.

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Last time I mentioned the Y word your threatened to castrate me :D

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yeah well thats just cos it's you :D:rolleyes:

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Emzy how does the child benefit work out with the twins? does the oldest get the most?

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Hey yeah, never thought of that. :rolleyes:

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every penny counts

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ive always woundered that

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Get the higher amount for the first born, and the lower amount for the second born,

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yes when you have twins the oldest one get the most ; when you go and get there birth certificate ; they put the times they were born in the corner;

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I thought that they time of birth went on al birth certificates now, didnt realise theirs were any different

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they mite do now ; my twins are 13 now ; they didn;t put the time on my other childrens certificates; just the twins

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I havent any others so I dont know lol mine are only 20 months and the times are on theirs