Mum-of-five to get £2,770 a month in benefits after two-child benefit cap scrapped
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Mum-of-five to get £2,770 a month in benefits after two-child benefit cap scrapped
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£33k pa.
Equivalent to about £38k (taxed) salary, before all the other freebies.
Benefits Britain – blame Labour for the ponce budget … can’t wait for IMF to step in and stop this fiasco once the bond yields start seeing sense and charge upwards into space
I work full time, my partner works full time. We don’t feel like we can afford a child.
Benefit babies I call them , sole purpose is using them for a comfortable life and home.
And then we wonder why so many immigrants want to come to England…. And I always thought it was because of the weather, silly me
Fucking joke. My wife and I work full time and we’ve been awarded £2 *a month* child benefit.
“We should look after our own first”
The government: “Okay then”
“No, not like that”
Ahmed’s going to be on 5k a month here.
I can’t even afford a relationship, let alone a child.
Partner signed off due to a mental health issue – yep, he won’t be returning back to work any time soon. I’m sure that £900 will help decide that.
That’s my entire monthly salary as a nurse with 8 years experience living in central London and working 12.5 hour shifts at unsociable hours. What a fucking joke.
That’s not child benefit though. It’s like £15 a week.
Shame you cant get pregnant by getting fucked by the government. We’d all be millionaires
Near enough my take home pay and I work full time.
There is a reason we have a low birth rate. It’s not because of any benefit cap. Look at the state of the country and the future prospects, work till you die etc, very high living costs and shit wages. 2 working people can’t even afford to live never mind have a kid. The ones benefiting are the ones who choose to have as many kids as possible so they don’t ever have to get a job. And before you say this isn’t the case, yes it is. I’ve seen it. I asked a friends kid years ago what she wanted to do after school and she said get pregnant so she could get a free house and that’s exactly what she did and kept spewing kids out. People also say the kids are the future of society, yes technically but many of these people spewing kids out are not even get to look after pets let alone children. So many of these kids will be tomorrow’s prison system and benefit claimants. Following in the parents footsteps. My opinion might not be popular but it’s the truth. You can also guarantee the fathers won’t be paying for their offspring
Could be so easily fixed by not means testing it.
Then it acts as support for parents without much money, and as a tax credit for parents earning good money.
Many other European countries just give a standard child benefit to all parents, and then other needs (eg housing benefit) are covered separately.
Similarly, it’s mad that childcare is paid for for parents who barely pay tax, meanwhile parents who earn a lot and pay a lot of tax are discouraged from working by making us pay for childcare. Again – just support everyone, at the very least with a highly graduated sliding scale where you get eg 10p less in daycare cover for every extra £1 you earn above 100k (rather than the stupid cliff edge we have now).
The two child cap should have stayed. If you aren’t financially stable enough, you shouldn’t be having another child and if you aren’t intelligent financially you certainly shouldn’t be having a child.
Why should I go to work every day so people like this, who keep popping out their children they can’t afford, probably all of which have different ‘fathers’, get to stay home and receive this kind of money?
Edit: Smarter people are having fewer kids because it isn’t financially viable. Absolute idiots with no brain cells are having 5 kids because of the benefits system. In 20 years, the ratio to smart and stupid people is going to widen even more. Hey, maybe that’s what the government want? A country full of brainless worker ants.
Ahh the good old “fight amongst yourselves peasants, just don’t look at what we the owners of the media organisations are doing”
So working parents who can barely afford to bring up two children, or even one are paying taxes for this? Complete joke
This is ridiculous yes. But let’s put this into perspective a bit – the OBR estimated that the removal of this cap will cost us £3Bn annually.
Now £3Bn is a lot of money but it pales in comparison to the triple lock (£15Bn annually and rising).
I’d much rather funnel money towards the young (the future of the country) rather than the old who are the richest generation who ever lived.
Food for thought.
I see the benefits anger porn is back.
Perhaps if we actually paid people more than a pittance in this country, we wouldn’t need to top up their income with benefits.
Wow. Just wow. Before Labour were cruel for not lifting the cap, now people are all “ooo it’s not fair! They are getting more than my wage!” FFS
Listen.
It isn’t that the benefit is too high, it is our wages that are too low.
God help us if you lot knew how much care packages cost a week.
Are there statistics to show how likely their kids are to end up on benefits when they grow up?
“The cap being removed will improve my kids’ lives and open so much up for them. *Money has been tight since Dave had to leave work, and now the food bill is where the main chunk of our money goes*. My son Marley, nine, has really wanted to do football club. Now we’ll be able to pay for him to do that
And my daughter Layla, 10, loves dancing – and I can find a dance class for her. She’s amazing at it too. My other three are a bit younger but I’d like for them to do swimming lessons. The cap won’t be massively beneficial for me personally, financially, but it will let me see my children doing things that they love to do.”
Husband signed off sick, most of their income goes on food. The increase will help their children not them personally. A lot of vitriol for a family also struggling to get by. Your health can change at any time.
No doubt this’ll suddenly make her financially literate and disciplined and all her kids will grow up to be well-functioning, productive and respected members of society now. This was it, that’s all that was needed, problem solved right? Just a bit more free money pls, I promise, we’ll be good after that!
Well done labour, rewarding the workshy and fucking over the workers. Party for the workers remember.
She can wipe that shit eating grin off her face. Council trash.
Bloody disgusting
This again is another manifestation of a nanny state. People should be responsible for their own action and should not give birth to kids they cannot afford to raise. I know accident can happen but giving birth to 5 kids is not an accident.
This is less than my take home pay and i work full time. This is why our taxes went up in this weeks budget…
Its a fucking disgrace!!!
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