Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely has welcomed a Government decision to put more child benefit into the pockets of middle-earning families. At present, workers have to pay a High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) if they, or their partner, have an individual income over £50,000 and are in receipt of child benefit. The benefit is withdrawn completely when they earn over £60,000. The announcement means that from 6th April 2024, the threshold for paying the HICBC will be raised to £60,000, and the benefit will not be withdrawn completely until an individual earns over £80,000. The change means around half a million families across the country will save around £1,300 a year, and 170,000 families across the country will no longer be required to pay this tax charge at all from next month. The Government says it will help create a stronger economy allowing people to continue working or take up more hours. Bob Seely MP said:
“I welcome this decision which will help support Island families as they work and care for their children. “This comes in addition to what the government is already delivering for working families across the country.”
Should be mean tested, should not used for the rich to save up for a little bit of pocket money. Pop up bob of course “welcomes” this. Bye bye Bob
Should scrap these payments altogether. If people want to have kids, make them pay for them. Why should everyone else have to subsidise other people’s offspring? Most of them just go on to be jobless criminals anyway.
Well they subsidised you, unless you had a public school education with private healthcare et al. Now you want to deny other people what you had. I describe that as selfish and hypocritical.
With the UK’s fertility rate at 1.7 (that means that, on average, women in the UK are having 1.7 children), we are not having enough children to replace those that die.
That, incidentally, is why we have record immigration. Industry needs workers and we aren’t breeding enough of our own.
Guess you are happy with that? I mean they (the immigrants) come here as full grown adults with professional qualifications, so no of that selfish having to be supported as they grow up that you so despise.
The only thing the government is doing for working families bob,is taxing them to death,you really are an utter pratt!
Don’t buy into that idea…Tory would like there to be NO tax. Fine for them, but what about our necessary services of education healthcare, libraries, swimming pools, rubbish collection, pensions etc? Conservatism doesn’t need any of that…they can buy their own. We do. Better idea is to increase the taxes for the well off and spread the wealth that WE helped generate around.
If you earning £50K plus, you should be able to afford looking after you own kid with no need for Child Benefit. If not maybe cut some of your costs!
Yes I quite agree.. I used to work for someone who would send her nanny to the post office every week to cash the child benefit and tell her to buy lottery tickets with it ! … it should be means tested for sure…
Every one of these comment are true big bib has done his self very few favours here
Should be taken away from anyone earning £50,000+ and extra given to those hard working parents on low wage and also no extra to those on benefits . Working should give you a better life and be encouraged. Too many layabouts doing nothing but take state benefits and on top they break the law and expect free legal aid to get them off. We are a strange country.
Just read the story again and it states if an individual earns over £60,000,I thought it was for household,so it could be two parents earning £50,000 each £100,000 and still get a state handout. Bob has no clue, average wage on this Island is around living wage £12 x 40hrs (if lucky) gives you £480 or only £25,000 well short ( if not seasonal)
As the old saying goes: Money goes to money.
With an election around the corner, nothing works as well as bribing people to vote for you.
If you can’t afford children, keep it in your trousers
What happens if they could at conception but their fortunes change over time? What shall we do with all the starving children….step over them? There but for the grace of *insert deity* goes almost every one of us. And your parents benefitted from Child Benefit and you probably have no idea how vital that may have been to the food on your table.
Please be aware that because of ‘Human Rights’, the current policy in the UK enables the parent(s) to claim; however, the child doesn’t have to live in the UK.
The latter is the reason why the UK has seen an influx of European migrants (men), where the mother and children still reside in the country they originate from.