[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by blazey

benefits in some cases should be assessed in a broader criteria, particularly with children who have many siblings and a relatively small parental income, as they don't often consider how many children the income has to be spread between.

I totally agree with you. Expenditure should be taken into account as well as income when it comes to deciding if children qualify for certain benefits.

Originally Posted by blazey

I don't agree with the entire child benefit being scrapped for the sake of free meals though, as many people depend on this AND free school meals,

Precisely! And to scrap child benefit but provide free school meals for all would then defeat the object because the poorer kids would still end up being poorer.

and as others have already said, the cost of providing the school meals would be a lot less than the savings made by not paying child benefit so the whole idea is a complete and utter CON.