Child Benefit.

seven-day-weekend

I think it should only be given to poor families and then only in the form of food/clothes/activities vouchers for the children.

lostinrates

LilacPixie wrote: »

I'm not voting because my prefered option isn't there.

I would prefer CB limited to first child accross the board so 1 child or 12 you get £20 a week.

I should probably vote regardless of income but that implies I think HH incomes of 60-80k should get it like they do now and Idon't

Somewhat like this for me.

I would prefer CB to be limited to first or two children, and for there to be recognised that SAHP, or part time stay at home parenting at least until school age is generally considered beneficial for the children, and therefore one would hope, beneficial for future generations of adults, and shouldn't be made impossible financially, but should not be mandated either.

If CB were available to us and we had a child we would not take it in our current financial situation. The choices we made about personal expenditure (where and how we live, our hobbies etc) might have had to be different as a result.

mark5

My choice wasnt there,

I would vote, stop child benefit for everyone!

Eyeballs99

That's the way, let’s continue giving all the money to the benefit squad

12 Children, why not have more and continue living it up off the decent hard working people.

I say, If your going to cut it out for one, then cut it out for everyone

LilacPixie

LiR - the strange thing about child benefit is the number they provide is needed for other things. My oldest gets 15 hours nursery/preschool education funded as does all/most 3+ year olds and you needed child benefit number to secure a place in my region. We also needed it to register her with a GP when we switched GP practices. It really is a bizzare system.

lostinrates

LilacPixie wrote: »

LiR - the strange thing about child benefit is the number they provide is needed for other things. My oldest gets 15 hours nursery/preschool education funded as does all/most 3+ year olds and you needed child benefit number to secure a place in my region. We also needed it to register her with a GP when we switched GP practices. It really is a bizzare system.

No. Its not requisite to take it. Or it wasn't for parents of kids now my age, haven't asked any of our gen parents, but I guess they do, its how it is now . The main hassle was getting an NI number but it was dealable with.

Edit: in any case, you won't need that number now, or rather it will be given a different way if all children need it, I guess.

maveli

depends what you meant by poorer family

LilacPixie

I dunno. When DD was born we decided DH would be a SAHD so he applied for child benefit for hte home responsibilities NI credit things. DD is 4 now but hte hassle we had me trying to register at nursery with the CB number being his was imense. Then CB wouldn't talk to me on phone because where as I was part of the household I don't claim the child benefit.

Your right with all these changes not everyone will have a number or it will be some sort of universal number than may or maynot be in payment

lostinrates

LilacPixie wrote: »

I dunno. When DD was born we decided DH would be a SAHD so he applied for child benefit for hte home responsibilities NI credit things. DD is 4 now but hte hassle we had me trying to register at nursery with the CB number being his was imense. Then CB wouldn't talk to me on phone because where as I was part of the household I don't claim the child benefit.

Your right with all these changes not everyone will have a number or it will be some sort of universal number than may or maynot be in payment

I guess the difference now is the Tax credits and free childcare and stuff too. Our parents didn't have that stuff to faff with.

robin_banks

Only poorer families should receive beenfits

I'm not sure what beenfits are but it only seems fair that poorer families should be in receipt of these.

The people's flag is deepest red and all that.