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Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news. |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news."
If you want to know, look it up |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news.
If you want to know, look it up "
Or ask someone  |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news.
If you want to know, look it up
Or ask someone "
I did but he told Tom to look it up ..  |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news.
If you want to know, look it up
Or ask someone
I did but he told Tom to look it up .. "
… like you usually tell us when you post a news story, no? |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news."
Because MPs cannot claim it - should MP’s know the rates of all benefits ? |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news.
Because MPs cannot claim it - should MP’s know the rates of all benefits ? "
They should know how much child benefit is if they are the Minister for children surely |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news.
Because MPs cannot claim it - should MP’s know the rates of all benefits ?
They should know how much child benefit is if they are the Minister for children surely "
Why when can just use Google like anyone else. We don’t pay them for their memory retaining skills
They should know roughly how many children there are and how much they are spending per year on them and what are the various initiatives, progress, risks of each etc. |
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"Why do people with no children have to pay people with children I have pets can you pay for my food and vet bills"
Those children will pay for your pension, be grateful. |
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"Why do people with no children have to pay people with children I have pets can you pay for my food and vet bills
Those children will pay for your pension, be grateful."
A guy with a profile pic of his bell end, just called me a bell end  |
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By *eah BabyCouple 31 weeks ago
Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria |
"Why do people with no children have to pay people with children I have pets can you pay for my food and vet bills
Those children will pay for your pension, be grateful."
No they don’t, we pay our own and pay for those below us if we work more than 35 years. |
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What pisses me (Mrs) off is if a single woman/man earns £50,001 a year (2023/24) s/he has to start paying a child benefit charge until s/he looses it altogether. But a couple in a household can both earn £49,999 each without having the same penalty to bear. So effectively they can have double the income plus full child benefit income on top
Never appreciated that one in all fairness it’s like a heavy tax on the single parents |
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"What pisses me (Mrs) off is if a single woman/man earns £50,001 a year (2023/24) s/he has to start paying a child benefit charge until s/he looses it altogether. But a couple in a household can both earn £49,999 each without having the same penalty to bear. So effectively they can have double the income plus full child benefit income on top
Never appreciated that one in all fairness it’s like a heavy tax on the single parents "
I've never understood this either. |
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By *lynJMan 31 weeks ago
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"Why do people with no children have to pay people with children I have pets can you pay for my food and vet bills
Those children will pay for your pension, be grateful.
No they don’t, we pay our own and pay for those below us if we work more than 35 years."
Though you will be eligible for the state pension, which others will pay for just as you are currently paying for other people's pensions. |
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By *eah BabyCouple 31 weeks ago
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"Why do people with no children have to pay people with children I have pets can you pay for my food and vet bills
Those children will pay for your pension, be grateful.
No they don’t, we pay our own and pay for those below us if we work more than 35 years.
Though you will be eligible for the state pension, which others will pay for just as you are currently paying for other people's pensions."
35 full years is your own contribution for your own state pension, less than this you won’t get full state pension, anymore and you pay for others younger than you not older who haven’t made full contribution is my understanding |
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People seem to forget that society needs children.
So if there is a system that makes it slightly easier to encourage that then what's the problem. Children are unfortunately not seen as a contribution to the wider system, when they are. Also, if you were struggling to look after your pet, PDSA would help and there are charities that would help with pet food. |
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By (user no longer on site) 31 weeks ago
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"Anyone who earns 49k should not be entitled tochil benefit surely"
A couple can both earn £49k if married/ cohabiting so effectively a household could potentially bring in £99,999 without forfeiting CB. Madness  |
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"Anyone who earns 49k should not be entitled tochil benefit surely
A couple can both earn £49k if married/ cohabiting so effectively a household could potentially bring in £99,999 without forfeiting CB. Madness "
Which benefits should be means tested? People hated means testing; you can't win... |
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No one should be claiming child benefits if they don't need the help ,regardless if they are entitled to it by new legislation. If you plan to have a kid ,make sure you can look after them 1st. Too many hand outs in this country . |
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"Why do people with no children have to pay people with children I have pets can you pay for my food and vet bills
Those children will pay for your pension, be grateful.
No they don’t, we pay our own and pay for those below us if we work more than 35 years."
Private pension yes , but not state pension.
When it started did everyone have to pay in for 40 years before they got anything back? No , it was paid for from taxes at the time.
The working population pays for the retired population and so it goes on.
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"Anyone who earns 49k should not be entitled tochil benefit surely
A couple can both earn £49k if married/ cohabiting so effectively a household could potentially bring in £99,999 without forfeiting CB. Madness
Which benefits should be means tested? People hated means testing; you can't win..."
I can’t speak for other benefits and their qualifying criteria as don’t claim them or know much about them.
This particular benefit per se though is starkly different in comparison to all others simply due to the fact that when a single parent can only earn £49,999, a couple can earn £99,999 before forfeiture occurs. Which I find hard to conceptualise |
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Well I'd imagine that if you can afford to send children to private school, have a full time live in nanny have two houses and possibly a villa abroad and have three to four holidays a year chances are you are not going to need child allowance.
A system that allows people to opt out or donate their allowance to charity would be good.
Although I can't see many opting out but in my utopian mind the rich help out those less fortunate.
I remember as a young lad we would have gone hungry or many occasions if it hadn't been for child benefit.
After my mum left and dad was in bits I was responsible for the food shopping and cooking and having only child benefit for the week it was only 1979 and around £6.50
Enough for a big bag of Spud's a couple of loaf's of bread and some beans. Veggies where very cheap as we lived in a farming community.
But with the cost of living today and all the other expenses that go with modern life I can't imagine how hard it must be.
So a system that gives more to those that require it can't be bad.
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"Anyone who earns 49k should not be entitled tochil benefit surely
A couple can both earn £49k if married/ cohabiting so effectively a household could potentially bring in £99,999 without forfeiting CB. Madness
Which benefits should be means tested? People hated means testing; you can't win...
I can’t speak for other benefits and their qualifying criteria as don’t claim them or know much about them.
This particular benefit per se though is starkly different in comparison to all others simply due to the fact that when a single parent can only earn £49,999, a couple can earn £99,999 before forfeiture occurs. Which I find hard to conceptualise "
The High Income Charge is now set at £60,0000 rather than the £50,000 it was previously. |
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"From BBC website
On 6 April 2024, it rose to: £25.60 a week for the eldest or only child, up from £24. £16.95 a week for younger children, up from £15.90."
thats just for working side of it
also add this if your not working
for a single person not a couple
you need to know the universal credit jsa benefit
lets say 75.00 a week this is doubled because you have 1-2 children
there is also another child benefit via the housing/rent side of it
single person is referenced to have a 1 bed house or flat
with children this depends on the age of the children upgrades to a 2 bed or 3 bed house or flat
there is also other factors if they are your step child and also male and female that also affects what your allowed with the bedrooms
so its 25.60
+ 75.00
+ housing rooms needed
100.60 a week extra |
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"Just asking. Tom cannot ask the Children's Minister, David Johnston, because he does not know either. He was asked in an interview this morning and Incredibly he said it was a benefit and no part of his remit. Is Tom over egging his pudding here. It's all over the news."
Too much |
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thats not 100% correct. You lose all child benefit if you hit 60k. Over 50k you can still claim pro-rata.
You get the full ammount but then have to fill out a self assessment form and they take back what you owe them out of your tax.
My basic is £57k so I don't bother with the hassle. Yes it may seem unfair but but I'd rather be in the position of not needing it than relying on it |
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"thats not 100% correct. You lose all child benefit if you hit 60k. Over 50k you can still claim pro-rata.
You get the full ammount but then have to fill out a self assessment form and they take back what you owe them out of your tax.
My basic is £57k so I don't bother with the hassle. Yes it may seem unfair but but I'd rather be in the position of not needing it than relying on it"
Incorrect now. The new threshold at which you start to forfeit child benefit is £60k. On an income of £57k, you can currently claim 100% of it.
They increased the threshold this year, from April I believe. |
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"Yeah but with overtime it would be in the 65k mark.
A workmate of mine years ago was on 46k but done a lot of overtime and didn't think.
Got hit with a 6k bill"
Not CTC.. But the old style CWTC - I was on less than 23k working full time, and it got to the point I fucked off the working child tax credits, because I knew I'd go over the estimate with hours I needed to work over the year, and either pay back or get nowt the next year. Pretty crappy when you're working full time basically just over the breadline anyways... Not surprising many choose to not work |
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