Labour are lifting the 2 child benefit cap

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AIBU that this is a terrible decision?

And you've lost me, because where did I say it would?

Bad idea - I thought we were supposed to be tightening our belts.

Having children in 2025 is a lifestyle choice. It should not be something the government pays you for doing.

Is this correct? I’m guessing so

Birthrates are falling though.

@HorsesDuvets so you agree it would impact the NHS? Why is that not an issue then since the population is more reliant on it as we are ageing?

Another thread - but, it’s funny that the continuation of the human race has become ‘a lifestyle choice’ akin to an extravagant and unnecessary hobby.

Having children in 2025 is a lifestyle choice. It should not be something the government pays you for doing.

Retirement will be soon too.

Why do people think that working people who get UC top ups would waste the money on smoking/drinking etc? Most people are normal, average families doing their best by their children but just not being paid a living wage for their hard work.

That’s very good news for the climate and given we are projected to have serious water shortages in the near future, a fall in the birth rate should be welcome.

I would have loved a third. Stopped at two because we couldn’t afford a third.

The country can’t afford this, either.

@MidnightPatrol I find it such a bizarre thought process 😆

And the best way to reverse that is to incentivise people who are living off the state to have more children is it?

But not when we have an aging population that outnumbers the younger ones who are meant to be paying tax to support the former.
If birth rates keep declining then it will just get worse and worse.

That’s very good news for the climate and given we are projected to have serious water shortages in the near future, a fall in the birth rate should be welcome.

Ageing populations won't be kinder to the planet. A decline in numbers is good, a shit ton of old people? not so much.

Will make no difference but fired in a complaint to Labour Party there - disgusted that rest of us be told we need to pay more, work longer, do without or build the foundations 🙄 whilst some of those who will benefit refuse to work. Absolute disgrace.

labour.org.uk/resources/making-a-complaint/

Keeping children in poverty does not save money.

The eventual costs in ill health and poorer educational outcomes outweigh any "savings".

@HorsesDuvets why do you think this policy would incentivise would reverse the birth rate?! 😆

Can’t believe all the people dismayed at lifting this cap when it’s the key policy keeping kids in poverty. Child poverty has consequences far beyond immediate childhood, reducing it through lifting this cap will actually save the state a lot in the long run. Labour should have got rid of this terrible policy the day they returned to power, so im glad they will be doing it now

Probably a good thing , we're possibly the crappest species on the planet. Be good if we die out

Well I mean a falling birth rate is great for net zero no?

Do we really want the only people propping up the birth rate to be those who pop out a new bay every 4/5 years so they don’t have to work? Generational benefit claimants.

I thought having children was the most fundamental biological point of existing. It’s the continuation of the chain of life that has been going on for billions of years! The need for children for many people is driven by biology not whether or not they have a good enough job.

Will make no difference but fired in a complaint to Labour Party there - disgusted that rest of us be told we need to pay more, work longer, do without or build the foundations

We will have to do this regardless of this policy comes in or not.

Probably will tax M&S and Waitrose food.

Because apart from a few those children will still be in poverty just with another younger sibling to add to the over crowded house.