Child benefit limit

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AndrewP said:
There won't be a change though, it'll be as you are or a minority conservative government.

Your CTCs and CB are in arrears though aren't they? Just weekly in arrears?
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They're weekly payments and always have been, i'd be fucked if I had to wait for everything for 4 weeks - as would millions of other claiments (not to mention going a month in arrears on rent and council tax which could lead to threats of eviction or court action).
 
look out piano said:
They're weekly payments and always have been, i'd be fucked if I had to wait for everything for 4 weeks - as would millions of other claiments (not to mention going a month in arrears on rent and council tax which could lead to threats of eviction or court action).
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Do you pay your rent in advance or arrears?

Payment, monthly in arrears, is how most working people get paid already and may help a transition into work, I can see some logic behind making benefits the same, they'd have to put something in place though for people in your situation, maybe a bridging loan of sorts?
 
look out piano said:
They're weekly payments and always have been, i'd be fucked if I had to wait for everything for 4 weeks - as would millions of other claiments (not to mention going a month in arrears on rent and council tax which could lead to threats of eviction or court action).
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Wow.
 
Flavonoids said:
Because they don't require the benefits.
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It’s called living in a society. These people might not receive the cash benefits, but when they are older they will benefit in kind from the services the next generation provide, whom they helped to develop through their tax payments. So I would be quite happy to reduce the tax payments of people without children on the proviso that these people, when reaching a certain age were eliminated ‘logans run style’ so they didn’t become a burden on the next generation they refused to contribute towards.
 
Big Sharp Teeth said:
Agreed.

Same goes for tax credits. If you don't claim them you should pay less tax.

In fact that should go for all benefits. The people who claim them should be the people who pay for them.
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You should pay more for your pension and nhs if you don't have kids as their tax will be propping you up when yer owld.
 
becs said:
I've got three but was commenting on people who said two or none at all.

I work full time despite having a chronic long term health condition, and I'm managing to bring up three decent bairns who plan on working and making something of themselves. Just get frustrated that these kind of comments seem to target people who are working rather than those who choose not to.
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Existing children won't be affected by this scheme, no matter how many children you have. In the future though after you have your third child you won't get further benefit for a fourth or more child.

So you know long before you get pregnant that your fourth child won't bring any money with it and you can decide whether or not you actually can afford it. That's the same as any working parent who also needs to consider if they have enough money to support an extra child, rather than expect the state to pick up the bill for it.

I think that sounds fair enough and I would also limit tax credits to the first three children as well. It will prevent young girls from simply churning out child after child in some cases to avoid having to work.
 
look out piano said:
Who ? the benefits people pay my housing people fortnightly, I pay them and the council tax weekly, I receive weekly money so I budget weekly accordingly.
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No, I mean people who have been moved to Universal Credit (monthly in arrears)? Have they been evicted, or did they put a solution in place?
 
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