Child benefit - stopping at 16? Anyone heard when his will happen?

[AMumInScotland]

Apparently George Osborne is talking about Child Benefit stopping at age 16 - did anyone hear/see this and if so did they catch when this change is going to be implemeted?

TIA (DS will turn 17 very soon)

i am worried about this as dd will be at school still(ok sn college)
I asked on another thread in teens and was told it wouldn't happen until 2013

Oh thanks, 2013 won't affect us personally then. I hope they put something in place to help young people stay on at school/college instead though.

thread here
feel free to hijack, it has really helped me

if they do, I can't see how they can
a) afford it
b) stop cb at 16

Thanks 2shoes, that's really interesting. It's all a right bloody mess, isn't it? You just don't get any feeling that they've thought things through, or have any clue how it all interconnects.

They could have had a "focus group" of MNers to point out some of the more obvious flaws!

ahh but EMA is worth more.
so dd geta roughly £80 a month CB EMA would be £120

i'm worried they picked up some of their ideas for cuts from mumsnet.

you have a point, I have seen a lot of thread suggesting such things, trouble is if you have say a 5 yr old, you think a 16 year old is a adult.

Actually yes, there are a few MNers who would have cheefully said "cut the lot, they're all scroungers" or think all 16yo should have a parttime job, or all parents should be so focussed on their "career" by then that they don't need any help.

trouble is dd can't get a part time jobe and I don't have a career as I care for her......

oh I could scream sometimes.

'We will have to pay bus fares too, Riven and aren't eligible for EMA (by a very tiny margin). We live in a very rural area and DS1 is going to have to catch 2 buses to get to college. We are really going to have to watch the pennies.'

Yes, but able-bodied 'pensioners' well under the age of 65 like someone we know, on a final salary pension of £27,000/pa and no mortgage, get to ride for free because they're over 60.

Load of bollocks!

But presumably, 2 shoes, you'll still get it till she's 19? I'm sure I saw that somewhere...

TBH, I'm not bothered, ds is 16 and raking in about £40 a week babysitting. He has more spare cash than I do.

Perhaps you should all wait for the spending review on Wednesday. Perhaps all these cuts will be put in their proper context. So we can get the WHOLE picture.

I suspect Labour's kickings orf are playing reeet into the coalition's hands re their objections to the CB changes.

Sometimes silence is much more valuable than complaining.

i wish dd could babysit, but I think they would run rings round her lol

I am not keen on slagging of pensioners