That a single parent having her salary topped up to over £6k shows how unaffordable family life now is

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I was reading about a woman, take home pay if £2800 and topped up by UC to over 6k. This must be £100k or thereabouts equivalent before tax. How can this be fair when earning that much actually loses you child benefit and free childcare? As she has 3 kids she will now be even more better off, not sure what the answer is though.

Yeap. And with a man who who doesn't even live on the same continent.

You make that choice when you have children.

No, you have children because you desire it in your core, you're responding to your natural, visceral instinct.

Madness.

Then don't live in North London!

It's crazy that taxpayers who can't afford to live in London and have had to move out of London have to pay for people on benefits to there! Why do taxpayers have to move but it's okay for those on benefits to live in expensive places?

And that's fine. But equally that means her neighbour earning £105k will be struggling just as much so we need to stop pretending that is an enormous salary. Because clearly it is poverty wages in London

No, it shows that she had kids she cannot afford.

The high likelihood is that even she had a partner, they would still be claiming benefits. Of not claiming benefits, they would be still be net takers.

People are try and use the red herring single parent argument to justify people having lots of kids they cannot afford. Often these people would be on benefits even as a couple.

So the answer is always, don’t have all these kids you cannot afford. It’s hard to sympathise with people making repeated bad life choices.

Do you know what I desire in my core? I have a natural, visceral instinct to live out my days on a beach in the Caribbean somewhere. However I can’t afford that, so I don’t.

Someone on Universal Credit gets 6k a month? Absolute bollocks 😂 😂 😂 You best get yourself on Universal Credit then!

Unfortunately some of us have to tame these instincts because we can't afford multiple children It seems if you are on benefits you have the freedom to have lots of kids but if you are a working taxpayer you don't have that freedom.

What a great system, how fair that is, so wonderful to pay for other people's kids at the expense of your own.

But the problem is the badly funded childcare, not the amount of children other people have.

No. The problem is people having children they can’t afford and expecting the state to pay for them.

Hopefully this Labour government will face punishment for this slap in the face to the people paying for this absolute farce.

People making sensible choices to have only the kids they can afford, then having to take from those very kids to give to people who have as many as they please and cannot afford them.

Also, by that same logic, people will tell you to "just get a better paid job" 🙄

Except it’s not the state paying for them, but people who then have less for their own kids. But I get the point you are making.

Can you do maths? 6k*12=72

Agree

im more annoyed at the first one, 27, unemployed, 4 kids and pregnant again. Stop fucking breeding

At the end of the day the first woman (the poor woman who works and supports her kids, blah) chose to have three children with a Brazilian man. That was an active choice. She had the option to go on birth control or to get an abortion. She didn’t. She now has to face the realities of that decision.

6x12 =72 net take home pay!! £113 before tax, NI etc.

I’m a single mum with 2 kids, mortgage so no rent, no health conditions fortunately, no childcare as kids all of an age where they can be left if I’m at work. Zero entitlement currently.

Take home of £2300. Mortgage is £900.

To look at it another way, if she's paying £2k rent, then SIXTY PERCENT of the benefits she receives is going straight into her landlord's pocket.

That's the part that really bothers me

We're on UC as dh was made redundant 7 months ago, my take home is £1200 and dh gets £700 in UC payments. We also get £100 child benefit a month. That is all we get, not eligible for any other payments or benefits at all. This doesn't give us enough to pay mortgage, bills, food and fuel let alone anything else that at comes up. How are these people getting paid so much?

Hands down @LeadBubblesthe most ridiculous thing I’ve ever fucking heard. Of course we all desire a hell of a lot stuff, I too desired many children but I knew we could not afford more than two!

There is a hell of a lot stuff I desire in my core that I’ve not done 😂. Someone please put @LeadBubblescomment in favourites somewhere.

Yes people working have to consider how many dc they can afford.