Angry at scrapping of 2 child limit

Agree with this totally. I know several people who choose to live on benefits and have had kids to secure benefits and housing. It’s a way of life for some.

So an extra 40 quid a week then deffinatly worth it. It costs a hell of a lot more than that to feed and clothes a child.

Well a lot OP people do and do begrudge it. HTH.

Scotland receives around 6% of net migrants into the UK, which is lower than its 8.4% population share.
source: Office for National Statistics

If your children were going hungry because of your decision to pay for swimming lessons then, Yes, people would be justified in being angry. As it is they're not so it's irrelevant.
No-one had ever been able to explain to me how different families on exactly the same income, be it from work or benefits, can give their children a vastly different lifestyle. There are many people who are able to manage on their benefits because they try to, not all do sadly and that's their own fault.

Your second paragraph is rather odd. Complaining about building more social housing, while simultaneously complaining about the lack of social housing.

It's also local authorities who decide and dictate housing priority, not central government. It's usually just number of dependants that decides priority, so a family of 6 is just a family of 6 regardless of anything else. Homelessness is obviously a priority, so of course LA's are going to provide housing to homeless families before they will to a family already in a fixed address. Are you seriously suggesting it should be the other way around?

And because you can make sensible decisions that is why you are not living in poverty. The kind of people @BearBuggy op is talking about don't usually have the average IQ and so make poor decisions.

ONS figures for unemployment.

It hasn't stopped people having kids tho.......that's the issue. So money is being stretched further and kids are suffering as a result.......this will hopefully save millions as social care involvement as a result of poverty will reduce.

Gosh, I was just demonstrating that it isn't a laughable, ridiculous or unachievable figure. I think this year is 750k.

Hate to be the pedant but the two child limit is on universal credit/child tax credit not child benefit

The SNP know their audience - handouts have always been their USP, they're upping the handouts ante to a laughable level out of sheer desperation for votes.
They're also spending a fortune on council housing to house people who can't actually afford to pay rent/full rent. Young working people, who plan their families in a responsible way, can't get a council house because priority is given to people who've gone ahead and had children they can't afford, and mortgage rates are too high for young people to get a foot on the ladder.

You think British people will flee to France if war breaks out? Really?

and how many years has that been going on for? do you expect other countries to take you in in the event of war or massive targetted attack on the UK?

They need to lead with carrot not stick.. just because it's the children that suffer. And people aren't as in control of their fertility as much as we would like to pretend. I've fallen pregnant 3 times on contraception for example.... yet I have a friend actively trying to fall pregnant and it's been years and no joy.
Yes there may be people who think they'll have a kid to get some extra money.. but like any other benefits I do not think that justifies the amount of suffering it causes to people if you try and cap the benefit due to something people aren't always in control of.
And NO WOMAN ANYWHERE should EVER have to have an abortion they don't really want because they are worried about how to feed and clothe the child. Not in this wealthy country in this day and age. Women should only have abortions if that's what they genuinely want. I don't think the risk of some people taking advantage outweighs the risk of women being forced to terminate accidental pregnancies when they otherwise wouldn't have. You know coerced birth is wrong, why can't you see that coerced abortion is wrong? That's what the benefit cap leads to.
And then there's the effect on the children. When women really can't bring themselves to go through with an abortion or find out too late.. and they end up living in poverty. Which has a massive ripple effect across the entire family line. Kids born in poverty have far worse outcomes statistically and that carries on down the line.. their kids are more likely to live in poverty etc etc
I'm glad to see labour actually doing something about this.
You want to get people into work and off benefits? Give them access to good quality free education, give them a sense of home and ambition. Don't mire them in entrenched generational poverty. The cap doesn't actually get anyone off benefits or prevent a drain on the state, it was just a vote winning gimmick.. get vulnerable people blaming other vulnerable people for their problems.

906000 was the net migration June 22 to June 23.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3degx4029ko

Surely that only works if the 3rd child becomes a net contributor?

There are thousands upon thousands of people out there doing essential jobs that will never be net contributors. What do you suggest? That we sterilize anyone on minimum wage? That we only allow people under 25 to do minimum wage work?

And as a teacher, I believe I am not a net contributor. Would you prefer I found other work?

Theoretically yes, but you don't help the chances of that becoming reality by

1. preventing people being able to have a 3rd child in the first place
2. needlessly subjecting children to added poverty which just further hampers their opportunity

PMSL laughing. You reckon we take in a million immigrants a year?!

Surely that only works if the 3rd child becomes a net contributor?

This. It is not the right approach.

It's not really about the fairy small amount of child benefit, it's the entitlement to other elements of UC that made multiple children more profitable.

I do understand where you are coming from. Where I live it is mostly those on benefits that seem to have more than two kids. How can that be right? A long hard look at the benefit system is desperately needed across the country so that working pays. However, it is never the child's fault so on balance I think that the two child policy should be scrapped. It is pretty awful when you think about it.

If I wanted an extra £20 per week I can think of much easier ways of doing it than another pregnancy, childbirth and then parenting a baby or toddler. Jeez.