Child Benefit Poll

Malcolm.

The who should receive child benefit poll.

Posters can select multiple answers.

Votes are public.

SingleSue

What would you class as a high, middle and low income?

Your high might be someone elses middle, your middle someone elses high and so on.

LilacPixie

Those with Children living in the UK

I was looking for the option of everyone but limited to 1 child only.

Graham_Devon

Everyone, up to 2 kids, up to 11 years old.

FATBALLZ

No one should receive Child Benefit

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Everyone, up to 2 kids, up to 11 years old.

If I had it my way nobody would get child benefit, but what you've suggested would be a good and politically feasable compromise.

shop-to-drop

No one should receive Child Benefit

I voted no one should get child benefit but I firmly believe that each dependent child should have a tax free allowance which the working adult that the child is financially dependent upon can add to their own personal allowance.

chucky

Those with Children living in the UK

moral hazard is one of the biggest patterns of behaviour on this forum, it really is

PasturesNew

I should get it.

dave4545454

No one should receive Child Benefit

no-one should get child benefit

carolt

Those with Children living in the UK

I think all children should get it. The clue is in the name - that's why it's called 'child' benefit, not 'parents' benefit' - it is designed to pay towards the upkeep of children. Who let us not forget, do not work, and whom surely we do not expect to work to support themselves.

It's all very well lambasting '!!!!less' parents for having too many (or any) children; this is not the children's fault however, and they should not be punished for it. I strongly believe child benefit should remain universal for that reason. It was certainly not the children who were responsible for getting the country into the economic mess it is in, and, frankly, their generation will probably be still be paying for it for many, many years regardless.

After all, we all benefitted from it growing up, and the amount removing it will save is, frankly, peanuts, compared even to what Cameron's proposed transferable tax allowances (suggested to mollify the middle class Tory vote) will cost.

Graham_Devon

This is where I disagree with you carol.

The kids don't receive the benefit, the parents do. Sure, it's intended to be spent on the kids, but in reality, it just goes into the pot.

The kids will only get "punished" if the parents don't really care. It's not as if any decent parent will say "oh, well, johnny can't have a new pair of shoes this month, my child benefit has gone and I'm not spending any of my money in the bank on him".

So the kids getting punished by a lack of child benefit, will be the kids who were being punished for having the parents they have in the first place. The same parents who would have used CB for themselves anyway.