£250 per child.

[maccawozzagod]

my opinion of the payment was that it is a blatant scam by the government.
The fund is worth sod all if you don't top it up regularly and all of the choices seem to me to be Government linked. There was even a choice that involved paying out account management fee's. I can't remember the exact details now but we were given a voucher for one child and did nowt with it because we can't really afford to save for her and her elder brother. The voucher should have gone into a fund for her of the governments choice but we have had no correspondence stating where or if we can top it up, that was about 18 months ago.

I am neither a tax expert nor a financial expert but as I read through the details I thought that they were guilting people to pay into savings scams, I mean schemes that one way or another paid dividends for the powers that be.

My children will either have or have not but I will try to do it my way and it will be honest and only my family will benefit from it. It is the same with the ruling that all parents are entitled to Child Care allowance so that the mothers can go back to work. Very good Mr Blair, thank-you Mr Blair, they pay 70% of the nursery fee leaving me to find the other 30% of my childs full time nursery fee, that takes up most of my wife's wage that she gets after she has paid her Income Tax and NI contribution............

.....but at least it gets her out of the house, better for baby, better for mother. better for Blairs unemployment figures, better for the National Insurance and Tax funds, what a load of crap. Am I too cynical and untrusting of stealth tax overlords?

[SPUGGIE J]

Regardless of who is in power there will always be scams and hidden taxes. Do we work to live or to make the govenment look good?