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Child Benefit is Increasing

132 replies

Overthebow · 06/03/2025 20:03

By 45p a week. What will you be spending your extra 45p on?

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SapphireSeptember · 07/03/2025 18:18

I'm going to buy some nail polish! Some expensive stuff that gets shipped over from the US. 😁

Lordofmyflies · 07/03/2025 18:09

Baba Ganoush probably.

Barney16 · 07/03/2025 17:57

A big salad.

MumsyMumC · 07/03/2025 17:47

My lovely 45p weekly uplift will be going towards my lovely £50 per week increase in childcare !

Ukholidaysaregreat · 07/03/2025 17:45

Owwmumo1 · 06/03/2025 22:03

Saving up for a couple of weeks then rocking up at Home Bargains to get myself at bottle of Reef. Party like it's 1996

OMG! Am reading this in the Doctor's waiting room and this thread is cracking me up! 🤣🤣🤣Keep exploding laughing!

Doggymummar · 07/03/2025 17:39

Prostitutes and glue

Loveanewusername · 07/03/2025 17:36

Hmmm between them an extra 75p . It might buy a loaf of bread (if I’m lucky) they would have to share it though x

honestly it probably cost more in admin work making the change/ discussing it then the actual rise 🤣

MyLimeGuide · 07/03/2025 17:31

Wagon wheels.

0ctavia · 07/03/2025 17:31

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 07/03/2025 13:56

It's actually crazy the amount of stuff we have to pay for. I was explaining it all to my 10 year old. There are things you don't even think of as things that you have to pay for.

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I agree, its like all these posts on MN where the new GF posts things like

“ My new partner is a Hero Amongst Men, he gives his ex £25 / week for his two kids, theres no way that food for a 2 year old and a 5 year old costs that much”.

LBFseBrom · 07/03/2025 17:29

Jc2001 · 06/03/2025 20:03

Beer and fags

I used to say that :-). Many years ago, my only child is 46 this year but I remember saying it breezily to someone. Unfortunately they believed me....some people really do take things literally. I can imagine that even now they remember I said that. Oh well, never mind.

The child benefit, which everyone with a child received back then, regardless of other income, was extremely useful and over the years it gradually went up.

PandaTime · 07/03/2025 17:29

I'm going to give up my job and live on benefits.

mediumdicketh · 07/03/2025 17:14

Actually an extra 30p energy drink from pound land too mad about those suckerz

mediumdicketh · 07/03/2025 17:12

I was thinking of buying a buspass

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 07/03/2025 13:56

Franjipanl8r · 06/03/2025 22:59

You can’t even fart without it costing money nowadays, I’ve probably spent 45p just typing this post somehow.

It's actually crazy the amount of stuff we have to pay for. I was explaining it all to my 10 year old. There are things you don't even think of as things that you have to pay for.

StrawberryWater · 07/03/2025 11:08

A Westlife CD

Crowcrowcrow · 07/03/2025 11:05

DorothyStorm · 06/03/2025 22:44

Whats the rate in ireland?

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€140 a month per child. Better than us but still

WhatFreshHellisThese · 06/03/2025 23:20

Crack and sex toys

Babyghirl · 06/03/2025 23:04

Mine goes in to a bank account for my 2yo for when she's 18 so she will have a few extra pound to spend coming then.

Franjipanl8r · 06/03/2025 22:59

You can’t even fart without it costing money nowadays, I’ve probably spent 45p just typing this post somehow.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 06/03/2025 22:54

0ctavia · 06/03/2025 20:08

A widescreen TV.

I was going to say a luxury holiday and new car but I bought these with the £14 child mainetenance I got last year.

Don't lie - everybody knows that anyone on benefits gets a free car and a five bedroomed house with garage, giant trampoline and wooden decking to put the 40,000 gallon jacuzzi on.

Admit it, you've spunked it on enough botox to paralyse 44% of the population on Newbury and 30 pints of filler like everybody else will.

Whatthebarnacles · 06/03/2025 22:53

A physical newspaper so that:

  1. I can keep reading about the wonderful shit the government continue to do,

  2. I can keep people at the paper companies in a job,

  3. I can pop it in a pile ready to burn and heat my home come winter.

Lucky sods aren't we 👌

coxesorangepippin · 06/03/2025 22:49

Nails

Brainstorm23 · 06/03/2025 22:48

Absolutely nothing as I can't claim child benefit.

SassK · 06/03/2025 22:48

I'm going to get one of these plasma flat screen TV's.

DorothyStorm · 06/03/2025 22:44

Crowcrowcrow · 06/03/2025 22:03

At least it’s going up, a couple of years ago it didn’t.
Other European countries don’t increase their rates every year just look at Ireland.

Whats the rate in ireland?