So Who Are The Dependable Benefit Claimants they want to target?

[Chinghehuang]

Well it can't be anyone claiming child benefit can it

'Dependable'? Or did you mean 'Dependent'? Child benefit is disappearing for people who today are earning over £37,400 p.a. Arguably, if they are earning that much they are independent and not dependent.

My point is that this government want to target people who are dependent on benefits and get them back to work, abolishing the child benefit for people earning over £37,400 pa is not targeting people who are dependent on our benefit system. Is just does not make sense to me. This policy will not make the slightest difference to people dependent on our benefit system.

Of course I agree that high earners are independent but this government are sending mixed messages, who do they want to target, the hard-working tax paying citizen or the non-working benefit dependent citizen?

The government is keen to dispel the popular impression that just the poor are being targeted or just the 'welfare scrounger'. They're at pains to point out that everyone is expected to contribute to the austerity measures. The CB measure directly impacts the wealthiest 15% of households. The 'maximum benefits payments' idea announced at the same time will impact a few hundred thousand families at the other end of the scale.

And as to how that makes a slightest difference to people dependent on the benefit system. Money saved now should facilitate the development of a new-look welfare system that aims to get people back to work rather than trapped on benefits. And, long-term, money saved should mean the economy is stronger and there are more jobs to go around.

My view is that the CB is an incentive for some people who are dependent on benefits in this country. To tackle the dependent benefit culture in our society I feel that we need to make the CB a discincentive or better still abolish it altogether.

Apparently they are looking into SMP.