Cameron hint over child benefit cuts for better-off

[BrilloPad]

Cameron hint over child benefit cuts for better-off

BBC News - Cameron hint over child benefit cuts for better-off

What should the government do?

[Churchill]

Cameron hint over child benefit cuts for better-off

BBC News - Cameron hint over child benefit cuts for better-off

What should the government do?

Income sharing...

[The Spartan]

Base it by per household isn't that what they did when changed poll tax to council tax, in some ways I think that's a relevant example

[DimPrawn]

Scrap all benefits, and make the unemployed smash up rocks in chain gangs.

[Scrag Meister]

Timing not so bad the last of my issue will be 18 then, so not a great loss.

Scrap all benefits, and make the unemployed smash up rocks in chain gangs.

DP, not quite what I had in mind but a glimmer of something useful there. Why aren't the unemployed doing something for their benefits is beyond me.

[The Spartan]

This is true they should be made to earn them.

However going back to child benefit isn't this given to those families that work and have children

[TestMangler]

Scrap all benefits, and make the unemployed smash up rocks in chain gangs.

Not normal for me to agree with you PrawnBoy, but in this case, I'll make an exception.

[Mich the Tester]

Why not cut child benefits for everybody? Or abolish them?

After all, 'we're all in this together'.

[fullyautomatix]

It looks like Labour has well utilised the years in power to create a generation of benefits dependents who do not know how to take care of themselves if this safety net was suddenly withdrawn. I browse several other forums and its concerning how some people are completely helpless if any of the benefits are taken away.

I have read threads where come were in tears that their benefit was being cut from 150 pw to 100 pw or whatever small amount it was and that it has majorly caused them stress. How did it come to this ?

18 year old kids want to go onto the benefits train rather than working their ass off in getting some skills.

[Bacchus]

GF Bachus is from Eastern Europe and she is amazed that we not only tolerate but pay the workshy benefit dependant chav-scum to have more babies

That said I am also amazed that we pay a flat "child-benefit" - walk around somewhere like Richmond or Windsor and you see the yummy-mummies and milfs prancing around with manicures that cost a month's child benefit which could well be better spent; there are some genuinely needy people out there too!