What do you make of this then? Is it fair?
Personally I think it seems crazy that those earning hundreds of thousands of pounds should be receiving benefits like this. The state should be there to support those who need it.
I suppose the difficult bit is getting the cut-off point right.
Osborne admitted that a household with two people earning £44,000 each could still receive the benefit, whereas a household where just one person was earning £50,000 would have it withdrawn.
He said this was because the government was trying to keep the administration of the system "as simple as possible".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/04/child-benefit-scrapped-high-earners
He said this was because the government was trying to keep the administration of the system "as simple as possible".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/04/child-benefit-scrapped-high-earners
Not sure that sounds fair?
What do you think?
AIL Staff
Posted: 2010-10-11 15:21:59