DragonSlayer
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Spot on!
Government considering cap on child benefits
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Spot on!
stacey_lou
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They shouldn't pay out for more than 1, first being a mistake if you have no way if paying for it but more than that your taking the pi$$. if could afford to keep my horse I wouldn't have one, simples, bug child allowance for those actually paying thier stamps fair enough
stacey_lou
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Btw typing on iPod so some mistakes above lol
SO1
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Having a horse is completely different to having a child, if your circumstances change you can sell your horse or PTS, which you could not do with a child.
I think it is a tricky one as I think it will be the children who will suffer from the caps not the parents.
Any caps should be bought in slowly maybe say that any children born from 2012 onwards so say that anyone who already has a large family on a low income or benefits can get the benefit but those who have a fifth child born after 2012 would not get it.
I also think that more should be done to get absent parents to contribute financially to their children and contribute more. I know some people say they do not want to get ex partners to contribute to bring up the child for whatever reason but they are happy to accept help from the state.
I appreciate FMM might want to use her child benefit so she can afford a bigger mortgage so she can live near her family, i would like to live near my family too, but it does not seem fair that she can get can use tax payers money to enable her to get a bigger mortgage to live near her family when lots of childless people can't get the same thing. I do agree with her that the system for deciding the cap on incomes is not fair as it should be based on family income not on individual's income.
I do wonder how many people who get child benefit actually need it to pay for the basics to keep a child, bearing in mind that there are also child care vouchers for those who are working and need to pay for childcare.
I think it is a tricky one as I think it will be the children who will suffer from the caps not the parents.
Any caps should be bought in slowly maybe say that any children born from 2012 onwards so say that anyone who already has a large family on a low income or benefits can get the benefit but those who have a fifth child born after 2012 would not get it.
I also think that more should be done to get absent parents to contribute financially to their children and contribute more. I know some people say they do not want to get ex partners to contribute to bring up the child for whatever reason but they are happy to accept help from the state.
I appreciate FMM might want to use her child benefit so she can afford a bigger mortgage so she can live near her family, i would like to live near my family too, but it does not seem fair that she can get can use tax payers money to enable her to get a bigger mortgage to live near her family when lots of childless people can't get the same thing. I do agree with her that the system for deciding the cap on incomes is not fair as it should be based on family income not on individual's income.
I do wonder how many people who get child benefit actually need it to pay for the basics to keep a child, bearing in mind that there are also child care vouchers for those who are working and need to pay for childcare.
stacey_lou
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But if I couldnt afford to keep my pets I wouldnt of had them in the first place. There are always options to not have children, but then I guess I was bought up with you dont even think about having children untill you can support them financially.
Whats wrong is a friend of mine her and her partner both work, she has a little boy who is a year old who she recieves I believe family allowence for as I know most people do. She lives at home still he lives at home but between them with current prices on rent and Electric and gas ect cannot afford to rent privately.
They have asked the local council for a council house for which they contribute to the rent but in a scheme which is called 'affordable renting' she has worked since she was 15 like most of us and always paid her stamps and has been told she is not a priority and in on the lowest grade.
This in its self is annoying has contributed all her adult life now being 26 to taxes ect and yet people who have never paid a penny and arent even paying towards their rent out of their own pocket are more of a priority.
But the worst part the advise she was gieven by the council in order to get a house quicker is and this will make you laugh...... Have another baby and we will have to find you somewhere!!
Whats wrong is a friend of mine her and her partner both work, she has a little boy who is a year old who she recieves I believe family allowence for as I know most people do. She lives at home still he lives at home but between them with current prices on rent and Electric and gas ect cannot afford to rent privately.
They have asked the local council for a council house for which they contribute to the rent but in a scheme which is called 'affordable renting' she has worked since she was 15 like most of us and always paid her stamps and has been told she is not a priority and in on the lowest grade.
This in its self is annoying has contributed all her adult life now being 26 to taxes ect and yet people who have never paid a penny and arent even paying towards their rent out of their own pocket are more of a priority.
But the worst part the advise she was gieven by the council in order to get a house quicker is and this will make you laugh...... Have another baby and we will have to find you somewhere!!