Child Benefit

[flashy]

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

[JJ_]

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

[emzy]

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

[flashy]

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

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by emzy

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

45p for second child if I recall correctly.

[derekgas]

Steady girls, dont show too much excitement, and dont spend it all at once, they will soon steal it back, in triplicate!

[JJ_]

lol @derek
yeah aint that the truth !

[MargaretR]

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?

[Lilly]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

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?

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.

[lancscat]

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

[Yolanda25]

Originally Posted by Lilly

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

[panther]

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

I think ill book that holiday!!

[Lilly]

Originally Posted by Yolanda25

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.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Lilly

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.

[Lilly]

Originally Posted by garinda

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.

Aaaah what a lovely thing to do.