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What if her kids aren't yours? They claw back from you benefit you don't get, paid in respect of kids that aren't yours? Can't see it.
Another issue they haven't thought through! If they are to make the existing proposals legally workable its going to require very very tight drafting of legislation and all sorts of "what ifs" being covered.Adventure before Dementia!0 -
I think they should just limit child benefits to 2 children (which is the replacement rate) and then if you want to have more, do so but pay for them yourself. At the moment, they are planning to penalise those people that bother to work, whereas large families who keep having kids that they cannot afford (and where no-one works) will continue to get the benefits. Not only does this discourage people to better themselves, but in an already overcrowded world, it encourages people to have more and more kids for the income they can get.
Either that or scrap all benefits for children for everyone and raise the income tax threshold so low earners keep most of their salary and work is encouraged.0 -
It's supposed to be a gesture to prove that we're all in this together and those with the broad backs are also suffering.At the moment, they are planning to penalise those people that bother to work
Some such sacrifice is necessary before people can really enjoy cutting welfare benefits."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
The world is over populated. People should not receive incentives to have children.0
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Personally I don't see why those without children should subsidise the lifestyle choice of those that do at all.There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...0
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worldtraveller wrote: »Personally I don't see why those without children should subsidise the lifestyle choice of those that do at all.
I wonder if you'll still be saying that when these same children are working and paying for your state pension, hospital and care home?0 -
RenovationMan wrote: »I wonder if you'll still be saying that when these same children are working and paying for your state pension, hospital and care home?
I really don't see what that has to do with paying benefits to people who chose to have children, apart from those in hardship IMO.There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...0
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