What's the Future of Child Benefit?

Dansmam

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Some people might need it so everybody should get it? Makes no sense

What about all the other stuff people get by breeding? Child tax credits, housing benefits, free prescriptions etc

Think of it as paying forward, for when non-breeders need care and conversation in older age.
Makes no sense? Only if you were never a child...

Mistermeaner

Dansmam wrote: »

Think of it as paying forward, for when non-breeders need care and conversation in older age.
Makes no sense? Only if you were never a child...

Makes no sense having as universal - means tested sure but why everyone get it? Especially given all the other benefits

onlyroz

ringo_24601 wrote: »

What happens in my house:
1. Child benefit goes into a join account
2. Wife spends it
3. I tell wife to stop spending it
4. Do tax return, suddenly have £1000 bill to pay and nothing left in the account to pay it with.
5. Slightly screwed

It's hideously annoying. I'd rather we just didn't get any child benefit at all - being in the £50k-£60k salary bracket drives me nuts. Living where I do, it's hardly a big salary either (only £10k over my towns 'average' full-time salary)

Can't you just top up your pension to bring your salary down? Or claim childcare vouchers?

kinger101

I'm amazed how many people who have posted on here have not realized that child benefit is their for the benefit of the child (there's a clue in the name), and that it cannot be administered via tax credits if someone is unemployed.

I understand the desire to cut the benefits, but it's not the child's fault if their parents are unable to find work, or have more children than they can afford to feed.

kinger101

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Yes - global population is rising, but this isn't so much the case in developed nations

What part of "the planet" didn't you understand?

Generali

LOL. The British hatred of children is quite funny now I don't have to live with it.

Having children is no more a choice than having sex. It's a biological imperative that we are driven to do.

I still think that Child Benefit is an anachronism that should be scrapped though.

kinger101

Generali wrote: »

no more a choice than having sex.

That sounds a bit rapey. No means no, Generali.

Generali

kinger101 wrote: »

That sounds a bit rapey. No means no, Generali.

I don't mean it that way:eek:

padington

I support no-child benefit. Extra money from the kitty for those that didn't respawn.

I would also support educational incentive benefit. Extra money for children who achieved considerably more qualifications than their parents.

On top of that I would support early death benefits. A large inheritance tax reduction if you consciously decided to go before the state had to start wiping your backside.

Kim_kim

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Why discriminate against single people? Pile on the misery why don't you

How is it discriminating against single people?