Salary sacrifice and child benefit

[mike1May]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this.

Anyway, with the salary sacrifice schemes that exist, is it possible to sacrifice enough of your salary to still be able to get the child benefit?
For example, if I earn £200 over the higher-rate tax threshold, could I sacrifice this as part of a cycle-to-work scheme, childcare voucher scheme or whatever and then be able to still get child benefit?

Sacrificing that £200 could be worth thousands.

[zombishambles]

so we can both claim for dd - upto the mount of the nursery fees iyswim - shes only there parttime. I should get on with that then...I thought only one set could be used per dc.

[Rollmops]

"And [SHOUTING NOW] the poor STILL won't get the bloody money, will they Gideon?"
Well, the poor get enough (how many people starve to death in this country?[hmm), they do get their benefits, some much, much more than they deserve.
The 'money' is needed to pay off the black hole of deficit that Labour, ever so generously, gifted this country with.

[ISNT]

People who are in poverty in this country don't tend to die of starvation. There are different risk factors, which result in people in the most deprived areas having a life expectancy a full 10yr+ lower than those in the wealthiest areas. To pretend that no-one is in poverty because we don't have people starving on the street is just silly.

[Rollmops]

Oh please. Please don't flounce about with your 'relative' powerty.
You either are desperately poor or you are not.
Basic needs such as food, water, shelter, cothing and education are given to all in this country.
What some choose to do with their benefit money - spend it on booze/drugs/etc and concequently lower their life expectancy - is not taxpayers fault.

[ISNT]

I'm not flouncing.

If you think that it is acceptable that some areas of deprivation have a life expectancy 10 years+ lower than other areas, then that is fine. You are clear where you stand, I am clear where I stand.

[ISNT]

I find it incredible that anyone can be blase about so many people dying young, about the higher mortality in pregnancy, about the higher infant mortality, about the shocking life outcomes of children raised in poverty.

But then tories don't care about minor things like that, do they.

Well happily after tomorrow we might see families on the streets and struggling to feed their children, that will be a resounding result for people like you across the country. Let's get the bunting out early eh.

[ISNT]

Fuck this I'm going to bed. Tomorrow is going to be awful. Well for me anyway, others will be strewing roses from their hats as the govt metaphorically stamps on the heads of the poorest children in society. Do have fun.

[limonejelly]

[Rollmops]

The poorest of poor, as you put it, will still get the support they need. The middle classes will bear the most of the cuts.
Please, do try to comprehend, just a little.

[zombishambles]

no they wont rollmops, they really wont. Studies have already shown that the poor will suffer disproportionately, as will women.