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Who is going to Blog the Budget for us?

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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Welfare:
    Europe is cutting welfare.
    Welfare spending rose by 45% in real terms in the past 10(?) years. A big part of the structural deficit and why many children live in poverty. We spend billions on keeping people out of work.

    Benefits (ex-pensions) to rise with CPI not RPI. Saves £6,000,000,000 over 5 years. Tax thresholds also to rise with CPI.

    Tax credits are eligible to those earning up to £83,000 possibly. Over £40,000 you get a reduced amt. [detail that I don't understand!]
    Abolish 'health in pregnancy grant'.
    Sure start grant to end after the first child
    Mothers to work after youngest goes to school
    Family benefit to be frozen for 3 years (means testing is expensive and unpopular)
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
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    Goodness knows how you are going to keep up with the tax credit thing! So many different things there....
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Child benefit frozen for three years, should have been scrapped for high earners.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    DLA:
    Costs up 4x
    New tests, no complex forms. Hopes to get shysters back to work but still get people back to work. Tough!
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Housing Benefit being capped



    Example used of one family getting £104k per annum housing benefit......

    Large family then.... Or rented off a relative... ;)
    Not Again
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Housing benefit:
    Some receive £104,000pa in HB. Equals 16 peoples' tax.
    Will restrict levels payable, limit size of home, limit amt payable to a family. Tough if you live in an expensive area! More money for people who need a room for a carer.

    £11,000,000,000 off the welfare bill.
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Child benefit frozen for three years, should have been scrapped for high earners.


    Should have been scrapped fullstop.

    If you can't afford to have kids, why should someone else pay for you to breed?
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
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    My feed keeps buffering! Arrggghhhh

    Just in case, did he mention Carers Allowance? Feed is buffering badly and only caught snippets of the Welfare bit....
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    edited 22 June 2010 at 1:09PM
    Corp Tax to 27% next year & down 1 % each year for 3 years after



    Small Companies Corp tax to 20% from next year
    Not Again
  • MORPH3US
    MORPH3US Posts: 4,906 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Child benefit frozen for three years, should have been scrapped for high earners.

    Scrap it for everyone IMO... don't incentivise anyone to have kids... if they can't afford them they shouldn't have em. :idea:

    EDIT:

    Cross posted with bendix... great minds ;)
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