To want a budget which puts young people and families first

Already lost the WFA and the free TVAlicante
Now you want to come for the free prescriptions as well.

WFA is still there if you are eligible. Blanket free prescriptions for the over 60s will be gone in the next decade.

There definitely needs to be a focus on the young because as you say they are the future & it makes sense to invest in them. However it won’t happen probably because the demographic swing is under way. Portugal are looking at tax breaks & housing policies for the under 35s I suspect more countries will follow suit as they start to compete for younger workers. Best thing to do is emigrate!

I live in a country where we pay to go to the GP and people don't seem to be dying like flies here. Children get free visits and people on benefits or with high health needs can get lower fees, but the rest of us just pay up.

I'm not quite sure where you think all the money is going to come from OP.

Absolutely. The boomer generation have had the best financial circumstances in history yet are the most angry and entitled.

Where is the £128.00 from?

Someone else to give birth for you, save you any pain of stress, maybe the state rears said child, another job palmed off. The list could be endless!

Comparable incomes? Yes people spend money differently. Surely that's obvious.

So you would take it to give as unearned income to many who do nothing but take?

You can look at any group of people with comparable incomes who live differently, it's human nature, some will choose to live within their means and others will live from overdraft to overdraft.

Well said! 👏

Us childfree/childless singletons really do get the raw end of the deal.

The OP will have changed her tune in 20 years time, suddenly the world will be revolving around the middle aged whose children have left home, bugger the young families etc.. One's sense of Me changes with maturity.

All those over the age of whatever the Chancellor decides, can apply for a Government funded "death box", should they wish.
A bit like the Scottish Goverment's "baby box" - but for the other end of the spectrum.
It would contain a mega dose of some medication or other to put those of us who so choose, to shuffle off this mortal coil rather than being carted off in an ambulance to God knows where, to be "looked after" when it's not what we want.
Saves the state, a fortune, and, in my case, would free up a house.
Should have a phone number in the box which you ring, before pill consumption, so the operator can advise the body collectors to drop by in a couple of hours.

I would want everyone catered too.

Getting elderly is rubbish enough, your friends passing on, even moving around gets harder. Some are alone, they're on about stopping winter fuel, your more likely to get ill, pension age increasing. So you work all your life, just to get ill not be able to afford medicine, to sit in the dark and cold alone ... bit mean.

I kinda think focus the budget on easing the cost of living, make wages actually cover bills and it would sort a of pressure on a lot of areas.

If people can afford life on their wages, benefits claims would decrease (as most people need top up benefit on top of full time wages), housing pressure would decrease as private rent/saving for mortgage would be possible so less pressure on council housing. A lot of NHS illness is caused by stress/mental health, making life a bit more manageable takes out the people getting ill from environmental stress factors, That would then release some budget money to filter onto other areas.

it shouldn't be linked to age but to wealth/income -
we need to bring in more income/means linked benefits without the furor and to reduce the stigma of claiming.
And get rid of the rhetoric- i'm sick to death of "hard working people "

Yes that right take everything away from older people.

Already lost the WFA and the free TVAlicante.
Now you want to come for the free prescriptions as well.
Glad your not deciding.

Totally agree I can’t change Parkinson’s , no real research or answered

No tax for people who don't have kids in education? No tax for healthy folk who never use the NHS? No tax for people who don't claim benefits and are self sufficient. No tax after 50 for people who have worked full time since they were 16 and have already paid more than their fare share?

No? How about a flat rate % tax on all income for everyone, no exception, no evasion. And, scrap NI to make pensioners pay their full share.

It’s always been unfair, children are our future, you can’t claim a refund for things that you’ve never needed.
Hopefully you don’t a life changing condition that I and so many have, yes I’ve paid for stuff to help myself, mines progressive, paid towards a state pension due in 5 years time, may not see it.

Tax free allowance raised to say £18k

Pensioners to pay NI. No reason why they shouldn't if they have enough income.

No extra benefits for more than two children

Exactly, as someone caught in a pension gap, 62, circumstances and life, led me not to be able to plan for a good private pension., state one 67.
Didn’t plan in my 20s, no pension when married , didn’t work, divorced a year off getting my ex husband’s, a small work pension, luckily a house bought with a final settlement.
i worked till 59 health reasons, unbecknown to me Parkinson’s at 55, now 62, disabling more now, add in prism needed for left eye undiagnosed for years, despite 2 private opticians looking nhs referral, a fall osteopenia , stage before osteoporosis , need insoles too
I had hoped to work till 60, cut back hrs and retire at 62, trying not to think too far ahead.
The fact is we need more tax and national insurance in a system, for all, lots take out more than they’ve put in, unviable.
Mortgage rates are very low, comparatively, tho other costs higher, the young, elderly and unwell all need support.
Tho I think for lots, and a defined clamp down on lots of fathers who walk away, and t are no responsibility for their children, and for the obese to take responsibility and help, as should other addicts.

This is where I stand.

@MemphisBluesAgain why do you think it was pensioners who gave us Brexit. As far as I can see it was the likes of Tommy Robinson and his ilk. A lot of reform voters are under 40.

Many pensioners are living on £128 a week. I really can't see that they are living at the expense of everyone else.

Pensioners' interests have been protected at the expense of the rest of us since 2010. In return, they gave us Brexit and successive Tory governments. So yes, I think they'll have to get used to being at the back of the queue for a while.