to wonder what benefits will get the chop from the £12 billion of cuts?

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Just that really. I'm wondering which benefits are going to go or be significantly cut. Anyone have any idea?

So if you earn 30k pa between you, you will be claiming child benefit yes? So you do claim and if you don't claim CTC you will be one of them many that doesn't claim benefits entitled to them ( the unclaimed benefit figure is larger than the fraud figure too)

Oh and the turkey voting for Christmas does work, let me elucidate with reference to specifics...

Unless you can pay for private healthcare for you entire family, NHS budgets will be cut and private firms come in, which has already been seen to cut the standard of care.

Unless you can afford private education for your family, you children will receive less funding and schools will cut subjects, facilities and services that they provide resulting in them losing out.

If your employer bullies you or exploits you, unless you an afford private legal fees, legal aid will not help you fight them.

If your parents are old the level of care afford to them will fall, if you become ill you will receive less help.

Your council will offer less services and the ones it does will dwindle in quality.

If you are unfortunate and lose your job through no fault of your own you will be limited in the benefit you can claim.

All for the illusion of deficit and debt, and you bought into it proving that you don't understand economics at all.

If you are poor, ill, young or just simply ordinary you are worse off under this government.

Turkey's and Christmas stands as a good analogy, because you sure as hell do not understand what you have voted for.

Now name changing because it's too embarrassing to have admitted that.

How in any god's name is £23 000 bloody poverty??????

The system is bloated because the housing prices are. Housing benefit is the largest slice of the budget behind pensions. No one is 'tackling' high house prices.

Why is that embarrassing Mustard. It isn't your shame?

Unless you can pay for private healthcare for you entire family, NHS budgets will be cut and private firms come in, which has already been seen to cut the standard of care.

Rubbish. The NHS under Labour in Wales is a bloody shambles.

Those children already here will be looked after

They're not being looked after.

There has been a significant increase in child poverty.

The largest in a generation. The first since the late 90s.

It is a direct result of these "austerity" policies.

So yes, you do appear to be a cuntybollocks who wants children to go hungry.

lurker brilliant post

'How in any god's name is £23 000 bloody poverty??????'

When at least half of that goes to pay your BTL landlord rent.

Half of that would get you a 2 bed flat round here. Unfurnished.

i thought the government has targets for child poverty,never seem to hear about them now

Would a text phone be a viable option for you?

Just like those in work, then eh??

Becca - would a text phone be an option?

'Just like those in work, then eh??'

80% of those who claim housing benefit are in work.

"Rubbish. The NHS under Labour in Wales is a bloody shambles."

Yes but it would be worse under the Tories, it will get worse, believe me!

oh and i own my home but if i were to rent it,it would cost 1k a month and we are nowhere near London

so £12k would be just on rent,hardly living the high life on £11k left for everything

They do have legal targets - they seem to have conveniently forgotten about them and their duty to move towards them by 2020.

yes i remember the child poverty targets making the news a few years ago,havent heard anything for awhile

think it's about time we did

Then move. Just like everyone else who isn't dependent on other people's taxes, have to.

God, do some of you EVER expect people to take responsibility for their own lives, at all?

And if 500 pounds of that rent comes from housing benefit each month then you can see how quickly that adds up to such a huge benefits bill. You will also need to save a bit each month for agency fees and moving which will be far more frequent for renters than owners.

Who are you suggesting moves Sand?

Is any of this fact or is it speculation?

so you suggest moving atleast 100 miles+ school's,colleges,etc and all it entails

my area was fairly affordable 15 yrs ago wasnt my fault landlords bought up huge swaths of flats and council houses got snapped up because the Torys rolled out an ill thought out plan

'Then move. Just like everyone else who isn't dependent on other people's taxes, have to.'

Haahaaha. So you leave your min wage or low paid job with nothing at all, because you never have enough to save up for a deposit and first month's rent, to a place where you now have no job and where LL's are just queuing up to rent to an unemployed person who needs HB.