Child benefit cuts

[Miss Demeanour]

Ok, so I am set to lose Child Benefit payments from 2013 ...I can fully appreciate the argument for that but my issue is that if you have 2 incomes coming into the house just under the higher tax threshold then they will not.

How the bloody hell is that fair when they will be bringing in nearly double of what I can.

Just because they balls up every means tested benefit going and have decided to swerve it this time they are not being fair ...no surprise I guess  

[Nick]

YOu are a higher rate taxpayer

Lend me a quid 

[Miss Demeanour]

You are a consultant with multiple houses , bonuses and contracts pending ...lend me 2 quid 

[Snoopy]

How the bloody hell is that fair when they will be bringing in nearly double of what I can.

Errrr ~ perhaps because they have twice as many adults to feed and clothe as you do?

They are also contributing much more in tax on their two incomes so their net household income will be much lower.

[Miss Demeanour]

Then surely it would be more equitable to assess total household income and set a limit at that for Child Benefit allowances.

As I say - I don't have a problem with this in principle and certainly don't disagree with removing the blanket entitlement that currently exists.

[Snoopy]

Just be patient ~ it will soon come to all households with an income over the threshold but at the moment it is not simple to do. Once they have combined all the benefits and tax credits they will know which households it applies to and which is does not but at the moment they cannot tell.

It’s a bold measure, writes Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon, and it cannot just stand there on its own you might think. Other universal benefits will be looked at as well. I asked one government figure about the anomaly of two couples on £40,000 each still getting child benefit while a one-earner household with a worker on £44,000 loses the lot.

Ah, I was told, when we have the mighty combined tax and benefits database with all the info in one place we’ll be able to deal with that too!

[GROWLER]

About bloody time too.
I'm really starting to warm to this new government.... SO FAR.
This and the end of the much ridiculed bus lane on the.....M4 is it?....even though it doesn't effect me, are big pluses so far.
Now if they could just put an end to this bloody turning the clocks back nonsense in 3 weeks time, I would actually be quite a happy bear for a little while.

[Nick]

Fancy a vino?

[Uncle Mort]

Why are we paying people to have children anyway? Surely there's too many crowding this world already?

[Darwins Selection]

Child benefit, winter heating allowance and bus passes are a total waste of taxpayers money on my family.

I suppose it does offset the part of my taxes which fund the state education system which we have never used.

[Nick]

The changes as proposed are inconsistent, as has been widely observed, but universal benefits are not on anymore, if they ever were. The Boy's child benefit payments have been invested to cover his university fees  but they will stop in 2013 without a doubt. As various Tories have have argued, why tax the poor to give benefits to the wealthy (or wealthier)?

[Snoopy]

Slash and burn the lot I say ..... and hang all labour supporters 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Middle-class families to strike over child benefit cuts

Britain is bracing itself for a Winter of Discontent after the middle class last night balloted its members over industrial action to protest at the scrapping of child benefit for higher-rate taxpayers. A ‘yes’ vote could see mass walkouts by middle-class families as early as November, with experts warning such a move could cripple vital public services such as Parent Teacher Association fetes and the continued administration of the Home Counties dinner party circuit.

‘I wasn’t at all bothered by the spending cuts before, but now I’m completely behind the ‘No to the Cuts’ campaign,’ said Matthew Singleton, a chartered accountant from Surrey. ‘We were going to have a fortnight in Florida over Christmas, but now it looks as if we’ll only be able to stretch to 10 days. We may even have to downsize my wife’s car from a Mercedes to a VW. The Tories say they’re pro-family, but try telling that to my little Anton and Tamara when they roll up at prep school in a second-rate German MPV.’

All across the UK solicitors and dentists are preparing to take to the streets and send a clear message to the government by foregoing their weekend games of squash at the sports club. ‘I would have gone on strike during the week,’ said Jasmine Egerton, a creative consultant from Hertfordshire, ‘but that would have been cutting off my nose to spite my face. I can make my point more effectively by withdrawing my daughter from piano lessons at the weekend and insisting she works to rule with her tennis coach.’





http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/10/05/middle-class-families-to-strike-over-child-benefit-cuts/

[Barman]

They interviewed some slag outside a skool on 'Today' this morning...

Unmarried, no partner, not werking six kids!

She couldn't even remember all their names! 

[Nick]

I heard that. INevitably there was a Kylie and a Kayden in there