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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 29, 2024 18:38:15 GMT
I’ve always struggled to understand why child benefit isn’t means tested. There must be millions of families getting child benefits who don’t really need it. If we stopped paying it to people who don’t need it we could stop the two child cap for those who do need help. This seems very basic to me.
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Post by aspieandy on Sept 29, 2024 18:44:56 GMT
I’ve always struggled to understand why child benefit isn’t means tested. There must be millions of families getting child benefits who don’t really need it. If we stopped paying it to people who don’t need it we could stop the two child cap for those who do need help. This seems very basic to me.
It's just such a big step. WFA may be the start of that slope.
This used to be a country where the gap between poor and relative wealthy wasn't so great and so the principle of universality was well accepted. Now, becasue of political policy, the gap is between families of property owners and families without, and the gap is huge. Life changing.
As the gap widens, the philosophy-principle-policy of universality does seem to become increasingly questioned. Its the sign of a country being divided; no longer united but us and them, divided by the utter absurdity of unearned, undeserved propery wealth.
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