Child Benefit threshold

They won't risk stopping child benefit altogether so the next best way to restrict is to limit it to those families with smaller incomes.

But that is not exactly how it works, is it......

A family with one earner on £60,000 a year .... no CB

A family with two earners on £50,000 a year..... gets CB

gycraig wrote: »

Why should tax payers subsides parents who earn a very decent wage ?

You could argue that a child is the responsibility of both parents therefore, why only apply child based tax/benefit decisions on a single parent (higher earner) rather than the parents as a whole.

Do remember your personal tax allowance goes up (generally) each year. in 2010 / 2011 it was £6,475 and in the current tax year 2018 / 2019 its £11,850.


Do write to your local MP and write to whoever the minister is for that benefit (ive done just this in the past. I used to pay approx. £18,000 a year in Income tax + Approx £6,000 National Insurance + Approx £2,000 Council tax each year [circa £25,000 each year in just 3 taxes] and when I was made redundant I was told I will get £68 per week for 26 weeks and then that's it. No other help for me (yet I funded the system with circa £25,000+ a year).


I just had to accept its an unequal world and there are a lot of people who struggle day to day and its not their fault whereas I was perhaps lucky / fortunate in the crazy game of life.