Comments on: Do working tax credits and child tax credits make sense?

By: John Davey

John Davey — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:41:38 +0000

My daughters boyfriend (18) dropped out of college at Christmas and has since been provided with a one bedroom flat and jobseekers allowance at the State’s expense. My daughter has now also dropped out of college (six months from the end of a two year course)and joined him in the flat. She has been told that as long as she is not employed this will be perfectly OK. Who is responsible for this crazy syatem?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:10:15 +0000

A two pronged process of limiting child benefit and restricting benfits to everyone would be a good way forward to cut the burden on the State (or is it Taxpayers?).

Why on earth should we support large families? We need to encourage quality families not quantity. My view is that large families are quite often the scrougers.

Another step could be to discourage teenage/single Mum families from all the handouts they receive.

I would encourage you to read Simon Heffer’s views on this sort of problem. He has his head screwed on right!!

By: Trumpo

Trumpo — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:39:40 +0000

Crikey johnyerman, you could become the new spin doctor for “Red Gordon”

By: johnyerman

johnyerman — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:50:22 +0000

in this day & age child benifit should be scrapped altogether,
if not scrapped then it should apply only to the first child, Looking after any other children that arrive later should be the responsability of the parents only.
Most large Family’s (not all) end up as a financial drain on an already fragile system, so smaller family units would be more economical & benificial for the children & the country as a whole.
China has it correct to limit a family to one child.
so if money is tight and your budget can’t stretch to another child, don’t have anymore, so if mr pig was unemployed he would only receive benefits of £1076.00 plus child benifit for 1 child making it more desirable to work for a living.

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:13:22 +0000

It is hard to blame people not working in example like yours. The benefit system is a fraud.

By the way, the child benefit amount is not totally right in your example, also Mr Pig would still get child benefit in additional to his previous employment income making him marginally better off working, but might not be the case when taking travelling to work expenses into account!!