Child Benefit is Increasing

[Overthebow]

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

🙄 it's not intended to be only spent directly in the child.

Spending it on rent, council tax and utilities is spending it on the kids, by keeping a roof over their head.

Tattoo though that might get me a dot.

Whatever 'Mother's Little Helper' I can find; hard since Gin got so expensive and Valium isn't dished out so readily anymore.

Maybe we should ask those in receipt of Carers Allowance what gets them by in their interminable life stasis?

I suggest Cannabis as the possible go to 'drug' for the many strata of humanity who find their lives devalued through giving birth, being born and often through just being female.....

I'm so dull - just coming on here to say most of a single can of baked beans. Lucky DC loves them, but they do eat the whole can. Surely it has to last the week?

DH will get the 25p this year too. I’m sure we’ll have fun deciding what to spend it on!

Mine can go towards the 27% increase in water rates.

!! You got me exited o
Up grading the air raid shelter with 45.. Can't even buy chocolate like that

Whats the rate in ireland?

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

Absolutely nothing as I can't claim child benefit.

Nails

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 👌

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.

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

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.

Crack and sex toys

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

A Westlife CD

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.

I was thinking of buying a buspass

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

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

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.

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”.

Wagon wheels.