FabSwingers.com forum: How Much is Child Benefit

By *ssex_tom OP Man
31 weeks ago

Chelmsford

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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By *icolasHidalgoDeCorazonMan
31 weeks ago

St Leonards

I've never known a child who isn't a benefit to humanity Tom, once treated with love.

It also comes back tenfold, but you don't do it for that.

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By *immyinreadingMan
31 weeks ago

henley on thames

"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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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
31 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

If you want to know, look it up "

Or ask someone

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
31 weeks ago

Chelmsford

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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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
31 weeks ago

your head

Google is your friend Tom

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By *issBellaWoman
31 weeks ago

Wales

£94 a month

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By (user no longer on site)
31 weeks ago

All different depending how many kids you have, and what the final payment is per week/month.

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By *ansoffateMan
31 weeks ago

Sagittarius A

Substantially less than the work and expense involved in raising a child.

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
31 weeks ago

Chelmsford

"£94 a month

The Minister for Children did not even know this...

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
31 weeks ago

Chelmsford

"Google is your friend Tom

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By *inger_SnapWoman
31 weeks ago

Hampshire/Dorset

£25.60 a week for the eldest or only child, up from £24. £16.95 a week for younger children, up from £15.90.

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By *immyinreadingMan
31 weeks ago

henley on thames

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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By *immyinreadingMan
31 weeks ago

henley on thames

"£94 a month

The Minister for Children did not even know this..."

Neither did you, to be fair …

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By *heel markMan
31 weeks ago

beside the sea

For 2 children I received £42.55p a week.

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By *rHotNottsMan
31 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Because MPs cannot claim it - should MP’s know the rates of all benefits ?

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By *arry monk40Man
31 weeks ago

Telford

Why do people with no children have to pay people with children I have pets can you pay for my food and vet bills

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By *ools and the brainCouple
31 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

You get £500 a week per child plus all your bills paid

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By (user no longer on site)
31 weeks ago

"You get £500 a week per child plus all your bills paid

Breeeeeed me!!

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By *ools and the brainCouple
31 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

"You get £500 a week per child plus all your bills paid

Breeeeeed me!!"

Be my pleasure

Shhhhh don't tell her I've had a vasectomy

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
31 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

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.

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
31 weeks ago

Chelmsford

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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By *ssex_tom OP Man
31 weeks ago

Chelmsford

"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."

Thank you GC!

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By *till gameMan
31 weeks ago

Oldham

"£94 a month

The Minister for Children did not even know this...

Neither did you, to be fair … "

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By *rHotNottsMan
31 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

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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By (user no longer on site)
31 weeks ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
31 weeks ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
31 weeks ago

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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By *ssex_tom OP Man
31 weeks ago

Chelmsford

Anyone who earns 49k should not be entitled tochil benefit surely

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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
31 weeks ago

your head

"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

Morden

"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

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.

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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By *piritualBlackBWW1979Woman
31 weeks ago

Medway

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

"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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By *eandmrsjones69Couple
31 weeks ago

Middle England

"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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By *ertsalaughMan
31 weeks ago

RENFREW

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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By *inky_couple2020Couple
31 weeks ago

North West

We should probably ban having children, based on some of this feedback. Much easier for everyone concerned, really.

I'll put it in the ideas box on one of those little slips of paper.

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By (user no longer on site)
31 weeks ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
31 weeks ago

"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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By *ools and the brainCouple
31 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

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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By *glyBettyTV/TS
31 weeks ago

About 3 feet away from the fence

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
31 weeks ago

North West

"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.

The High Income Charge is now set at £60,0000 rather than the £50,000 it was previously.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
31 weeks ago

North West

^^^knock a zero off.

£60,000

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By *ig1gaz1Man
31 weeks ago

bradford

"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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By *dinburghWomanWoman
31 weeks ago

Edinburgh

Too much

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By *hawn ScottMan
31 weeks ago

london Brixton

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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By *inky_couple2020Couple
31 weeks ago

North West

"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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By *hawn ScottMan
31 weeks ago

london Brixton

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

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
30 weeks ago

Chelmsford

Any parent on 50k should be paid this surely

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By *arley QuimWoman
30 weeks ago

Somewhere

"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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