Thread: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013
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Old 04-10-2010, 22:35   #124
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Re: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013
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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
Wasn't that originally one of the reasons why family allowance was introduced in the first place about 1946 i think to encourage people to have more kids after the war
Indeed it was. In fact, if the baby boom didn't happen the when it did, we would be in a far worse position than we are in today.

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Originally Posted by peanut View Post
A good way of putting things into perspective from the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010...george-osborne
I can't see how the plumber in that example gets five thousand pounds a year in housing benefit, when he has a salary of nearly thirty thousand pounds a year.
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