Child Benefits to be cut, surely about time!!!

:D Pete...

 

Actually, Spain can be quite cold in the winter :wink:

Surfer and Chopper, may I take this opportunity to thank you both for your service to this country of ours. It's said too little and too infrequently but we should all be thanking you and honouring you for that. It's people like you that have made this country the best of what it was and still is.

 

I've come a bit late to this discussion but, I recall 'back in the day', that Child Benefit (or whatever it was called at the time) was never paid for the first child, only subsequent ones (as my Mother was so fond of telling me, since I was the first!). To me it would seem logical, rather than complicating the system by basing it on how much tax people pay, to give Child Benefit to everyone but for the first child only - that way everyone would get something and those young women (who live totally on benefit, can't seem to say 'No' and have 3 children by 3 different fathers) and those with higher incomes could pay to bring up any subsequent children they chose to have.

Just as an addition - I was staggered, when I looked on the HMRC website, to discover that Child Benefit (for the first child) is over £20 per week. When my first daughter was born (in 1983), I think I got just under £7 - and a fat lot of good that was when it came to buying shoes etc.

 

This is true, I remember that too, but then "that was when deck chairs were 7/6d."