Stvoider Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 No you don't Yeah I had to re-read that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcy Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 so who doesnt get child benefit then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stvoider Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 so who doesnt get child benefit then It's an old article but it might help:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11552152 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah-Lacie Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 If you earn over £40,000 per year, you won't be entitled to child benefit, however, iirc, if both parents work, and their combined income is £75,000+, then they are entitled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 If you earn over £40,000 per year, you won't be entitled to child benefit, however, iirc, if both parents work, and their combined income is £75,000+, then they are entitled? Yep if one of you is a higher rate tax payer you won't get it yet if both of you earn £1 under the higher rate you will..barmy isn't ti? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 so who doesnt get child benefit then From 2013 any family who has an earner in the higher rate tax bracket will lose their child allowance.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Because you don't choose to get old The governemt do subsidise having kids. Likewise you don't choose to be born. The pensioner has at least had 55-70 years of time to save for their old age. The ones retiring now have taken a hell of a lot out of the state and left a hell of a lot of debt for their children and their children's children, that is if they have done the decent thing and had children to pay off their share of the debt in the first place. Perhaps we should stop paying the pension. A child has no had anytime to save money to bring itself up, and the state needs them to survive until working age, if anything we should increase child benefit, we need children to survive until adulthood so they can be taxed to pay off pensioner debt. Hell, why should the immigrants be paying tax to the state to pay of the Englishman's debt. Maybe we should abolish the state and start everything again from scratch. No state pension, because they never funded it in the first place. Force them pensioners into work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcy Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 If you earn over £40,000 per year, you won't be entitled to child benefit, however, iirc, if both parents work, and their combined income is £75,000+, then they are entitled? I didnt think this was enforced until 2013 At the moment its a non means tested benefit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah-Lacie Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I didnt think this was enforced until 2013 At the moment its a non means tested benefit I think it is in 2013 it will be enforced, apparently. For now, every one with a child does get CHB, as you said x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stvoider Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Likewise you don't choose to be born. The pensioner has at least had 55-70 years of time to save for their old age. The ones retiring now have taken a hell of a lot out of the state and left a hell of a lot of debt for their children and their children's children, that is if they have done the decent thing and had children to pay off their share of the debt in the first place. Perhaps we should stop paying the pension. A child has no had anytime to save money to bring itself up, and the state needs them to survive until working age, if anything we should increase child benefit, we need children to survive until adulthood so they can be taxed to pay off pensioner debt. Hell, why should the immigrants be paying tax to the state to pay of the Englishman's debt. Maybe we should abolish the state and start everything again from scratch. No state pension, because they never funded it in the first place. Force them pensioners into work! You are entirely missing the point. People choose to have kids (ignoring any religious bias). Those that are born are subject to human right's and therefore the right to exist until natural death. What we are debating is supporting the cost of raising a child to the point of self sustenence. For what it's worth I think people should be given the choice (I said choice) to work until they die at their desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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