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People on 50 grand a year can't manage without Child Benefit
LilyAnna80
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Some of these people need a wake up call. THEY can't manage - how do they think people on minimum wage cope - or those on basic benefits.
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I have always found that poorer people are better at managing budgets than those in senior positions who have never learnt to go without
Why let it bother you no one is saying they cant live without benefits just pointing out how unfair the system is which it is
But then the government is just flippin useless so no wonder they have made this such a mess
There were women being intervewed who said considering they were losing the benefit because of their husbands wages, that they WOULD have to work to make up for losing the benefit.
The reason it bothers me is the damn hypocrisy of the news and press hi-lighting their very sad plight. I don't think I have ever seen it where anyone has done an article or programme on how people on basic benefits manage
So what you saying it's been highlighted by tv because this will affect many in the media?
What a strange assumption to make. The answer is no.
http://news.sky.com/story/1033952/child-benefit-payment-cut-off-for-families
...Somehow the sums just don't add up to me.
Maybe someone could explain ?
Well i dont get your point
Theres been thousands of reports about the unemployed etc
Anyway who cares i'm off bed
Yesterday a politician was asked this question (don't know who he was, and he stated that it had been done this way as to do it any other way would have cost too much money, I was just like eh?
There's nothing to explain it's a policy thought up by an idiot
I will sit back now and wait for the abuse...
I tend to agree with you - have you a suit or armour we can share
Indeed, anyone who thinks earning £60k per year especially in and around London is rich is an idiot. Whilst its not breadline it ain't rich, maybe it is the further North you go? I had to laugh at the poster saying we drive BMW's, the only one of those on my road belongs to a bloke on benefits.:D
Read it again - I never commented on BMW's. Bloody hell I must be the most misquoted person on here,
Oops that was not directed at me. I am now getting paranoid.
It's so the child doesn't suffer. The one with the feckless mum is already at a disadvantage and you want to make it worse.
Nice.
I would have to agree with you or at least as far as the teenage girls who continue to get pregnant by different men is concerned.
Once can be a mistake but when they continue to go from one man to another geting pregnant then it seems deliberate.
The trouble is we now have too many 'feckless' mums. I have 3 daughters myself all grown up now but if any of them had ever got pregnant in their teens I would not have sat back and watched them go from one man to another getting pregnant with each one.
So giving the feckless mother more money is such a good idea that the feckless one thinks - ohhhhhh I have extra money - I better not make my child suffer, Like that one will work.
The problem with it is that the system that they would have to put in place to check both partners wages and then remove child benefit would be much more complex than what they are doing.
This would mean that the tax office would have to employ more people to carry out the checks.
Bit that means creating an unfair sytem they know is unfair so as not to employ more people
Which is what they've done
Aha - a win win situation. More people employed and more money taken away from the public. Hells bells - they missed a chance there.
I was sickened and dsimayed by the woman interviewed on TV the other night who was moaning about how it was going to have a dramatic effect on her and her kids. These people do not have the slightest idea of how so many people have to struggle on a fraction of what they earn and I'm not just talking about benefit recipients but a lot of hard working but low earning individuals.
The loss of this income will no doubt be missed, and Iunderstand that nobody likes having things taken away from them. But to bleat about it in the manner that she did, suggesting that it will cause hardhship, was an insult to people who are genuinely impoverished.
There are a lot more inequities in the tax and benefits system, for example OAPs living in mediterranean countries being legitimately able to claim cold weather heating payments and it's high time these were all targetted and the money saved redistributed to those who really need it.
How much would you like back then?
What a sensible statement.