AIBU to think that child tax credits should only be for the very needy rather than just supplementing people's income? Family of 5 down the street with only one part time earner heading off for 2 weeks on holiday. Isn't the govt just subsidising thei...

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Well the only view point you've given OP, is that

if a family of 5 can afford a holiday away then they probably shouldn't get any assistance.

Would you care to elaborate?

madbuslady

in a twist because a couple on benefits were flying first class to Mauritius?

I bloody loved the Maritus thread

depends where they are going and if they are travelling 1st class?

actually it doesnt really as its none of your business

Let's be clear though, its not an 'alternate viewpoint' it a Daily Mail viewpoint, which is not the same thing at all.

Hit us with some originality and we're all ears.

On the substance of the question, I actually agree tax that credits need to be more tightly focused at the lower end of the income spectrum (if they're going to be focused at all - really it's a stupid system and needs replacing altogether IMO).

What I cannot understand is people who think they know enough about other people's financial circumstances to decide how much they should or shouldn't receive. Mind your own biz.

I get tax credits and went to Great Yarmouth for a week this year, I should send a thank you letter to the government for my fabby holiday I suppose.

Oh I do love a good would-be-benefit-bashing, lets-turn-it-back-on-the-OP thread.

OMG you are so not being unreasonable. How very dare anyone on a low income with state support do anything nice as a family. Let alone a ... holiday.

State support should ONLY be for sackcloth and ashes, gruel and water, and a strictly rationed and monitored goat.

No wonder this country is up the creek.

GREAT YARMOUTH? Luxury! We went on holiday to a hole in the ground IF WE WERE LUCKY!

i'm so poor i haven't EVER been on holiday to Gt Yarmouth

Personally I think all poor people should be sent on a life long holiday to Skegness where they can sleep in a seafront shelter...looking out to sea and reflecting on their poorness.

There is a valid point underneath all the vitriol.

From among my circle of friends (we are all very open about money), I know that someone working part-time with top-up benefits, HB etc, is only £100 pcm a worse off than someone working full-time with on nothing other than CB and basic child element of TCs. That's not really fair, but IMO the fault lies with work not paying enough, not the tax credit system being too generous. Both struggle.

But that's not quite how the OP was presented...

Great yarmouth is that not abroad

skegness

OP - have a & forget about it; their lives not yours; live your life & make the most of it.

(I'm still waiting for WTC because limited on working hours due to MH problems myself; no-one down the road would know that i'm on DLA though.

The WTC will just about help me meet the bills.)

''Family down the road'' in the OP may have other benefits / an extra cheap last minute deal / skimp on other things.
Either way not your problem.

And furthermore the government subsidised our daily ice creams AND trip to the sea life centre while we were there

ok whats with the goat thing? thats 2 benefit bashing threads if been on were the goat has come out, what have a missed?

I like Skeggie. It's like on on safari.

I currently get £33 pw in child benefit.

If I had decided it was in my children's best interest to have a nice holiday somewhere hot and had saved the child benefit for one year the tax payer would have funded a £1700 holiday for our family.

Maybe that's why they're taking away our CB from Jan so we can't spend it on holidays .

And furthermore the government subsidised our daily ice creams AND trip to the sea life centre while we were there

State funded ICE CREAM we are doomed

*going on safari.

Actually me, my friend and my son have all been discussing this recently, as I'm job hunting and working out if I can "afford" to take some jobs.

It does seem mad that you get more money for working part-time, but having said that it doesn't particularly bother me who gets what - just musing!

I have thread title envy

I like Skeggie. It's like on on safari.