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Originally Posted by erol
Not sure about that. Someone on housing benefit with 6 kids must get more than a lone adult surely?
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Only in that they'll get more rent paid due to the larger house that's required.
And more council tax paid as with a larger house it's likely to be in a higher band.
Nothing related to having kids.
Child benifit and CSA gives more for the first kid than any subsiquent kids.
So with CSA, the first kid gets £400 for instance, the second and third get £250 each (example)
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Originally Posted by erol
OK I was not aware of such a cap (or that Chris Evans had a child  ). I see what you are saying and kinda agree with it but it's not quite a simple as it seems. For a start a lone adult with a child, that needs it, will get more benefit than a lone adult without a child. So certainly it seems fair to me that such benefits (the extra for the child) should be 'discounted' against the child support payment from the absent parent. |
But you don't get any extra benifits like that for having kids.
With the gov seeing the CSA money as an income rather than a child benifit, they take away *all* benifits up to that amount
So if a mother gets £200 a month benifit, she'll be given £400 from the CSA and no benifits.
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Originally Posted by erol
I think everyone would agree with this but I guess the real question is how do you stop acrimonious parents using the kids in such a way?
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By the courts enforcing visitation rights perhaps?
