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Originally Posted by onlyme
I'm a single working mum, and dont receive any benefits apart from Child benefit as I earn 'too much'. However, once taking into account childminders, house payments, gas, electric, council tax, food (and not a lot of that), my outgoings come to almost £1600 per month. I would financially be better off not working. The system is drastically wrong!
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Judging by your outgoings, I'm assuming you probably live in a reasonably warm house in a decent area, and if you didn't work you'd be much less likely to have that luxury regardless of being better off financially. You're child or children would probably also have a high chance of also having a similar attitude and no parent wants their children to end up like that, though of course not all do end up with that kind of attitude.
As far as I am aware, the scheme doesn't take into account your living costs as generally you'd have to pay for those kind of things regardless of having children. They only take into account the cost of feeding and clothing a child as far as I've always been aware, which to be fair is no where near met with the amount of child benefits you are awarded, but I think it's a fair scheme, there just isn't enough money to hand out, mainly because there are a lot of people claiming benefits that they shouln't be.