Child Benefit
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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?
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.
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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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.
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.
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
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
I have a hunch that they don't.
Aaaah what a lovely thing to do.
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.
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.