To point out that this family ARE on benefits

[barbiecollector]

Not a benefit-bashing thread at all, but I hate how smug these big families are when they say they are not on benefits like they are superior to people who are. In fact, this family get £180 a week in Child Benefit!

Story here: Big family

"Not a benefit-bashing thread at all"

So what sort of thread is it, exactly?

And?

So?

They are probably able to claim tax credits too. But it looks like the don't.

They don't sound smug to me.

It's an article on their life, of course it'll be a bit 'me,me,me' because it is about them

I take my hat off to anyone who
a) copes with more than 1 dc, and
b) runs their own business
Both are bloody hard work and will not be a walk in the park (I say this as someone with 1 dd and trying to start my own business)

They look like a happy family.
IMO, child benefit is not a benefit benefit. They deserve every penny they get.

Not a benefit-bashing thread at all=usually is.

I'm not racist but=usually go on to make a racist comment.

I don't want to be rude= then goes on to make a really rude comment.

But until this year child benefit was not means tested so almost everyone with children got it. I think you are being a bit u. They are not on benefits as in relying on the state to fund them and never working. Look like a lovely family.

I agree MammaTJ, that is usually the case. However, I do not have an issue with the fact that they are on benefits, I have an issue with the fact that people talk about families like this as being so marvellous because they are not on benefits. Actually, they are. And are probably taking more from the state than, say, a single mother of two. Certainly in terms of free healthcare and schooling.

Every parent in the country received CB until this year. Everyone in the country is also taking something from the state.

They have 16 kids that they provide for. Tbh I dont know how they do it but fair play because its hard work.

I cannot see why you have an issue with this at all. They are bringing up 16 people who can go out into the world and work and pay tax and contribute to society.

By your rationale people claiming hteir state pension are on benefits. So as pensioners are now the largest demographic in the country, throw in those with diabetes, then the entire nation is on benefits.

It's IS

Receiving child benefit is NOT 'being on benefits'

I find it interesting though that their 18 year old daughter has had a baby of her own. Could it be that she has got the impression from her parents that having children is the only worthwhile thing to do?

I didn't see the OP as benefit bashing- rather the opposite: pointing out that perhaps those of us who are not on "benefit benefits" don't have so much to be proud of; we are still getting help from society one way or another. We are not superior just because we are fortunate enough not to need the other types of benefit.

My FIL (otherwise a lovely man) used to be quite superior about people who had to claim benefits because they hadn't had the foresight to provide for their old age. I forbore to point out that his own generous pension came from investments by his step-FIL and that if he had had to rely on his own earnings during his working life he would have struggled.

Child benefit is now means tested.... They are now 'on' benefits

Yaawwwwmmnn....another benefits bashing thread on MN.

How original

What cory said (although we don't share a fil )

It is true that some of the people who've made me feel the most judged, the most like a scrounger have had three or four children. And yeah, fact is, they are receiving money from the government for their children.

I've learnt to develop a thick skin. You're not safe from being judged no matter how supposedly intelligent the judger is. In fact, sometimes these people are the least well able to put themselves in somebody else's shoes.

Try not to let it get to you OP. I realised a while back that what I feel resentment about is the fact that these dumb-assed people who think in straight lines and have no understanding of the world outside their own sphere of reference can have landed ontheir feet with husbands to shore the household up financially and well-paid jobs.

who cares if they get child benefit or not, they look happy

plus op you cant take the moral high ground if you read the sun

have to disinfect pc now, thanks

No, being 'on benefits' is living solely off them.

Holy crap, she's the same age as me!

Smug? Where?

They're entitled to benefits like millions of families, they clearly don't rely on it, it's something that was until recently indiscriminately given. They own and run a successful business. What's your problem?