Anyone not using their child benefit yet?

[arabicabean]

Hi,

I'am a first time mum and have recently started receiving child benefit. I was interested in whether others were using theirs? Mine is paid into a new account I opened and its kind of exciting getting the monthly statements. Are you using yours yet or just watching it accumulate?

Greenelizabeth is the allowance more or less generous than the UK? Just curious.

I should have said that the first figure was monthly. Probably very unclear.

My maths isn't great but it sounds more generous compared to here.

Going back a bit, maybe people who are 'childfree' and don't like paying the tax that pays for child benefit should think of it as them paying for the benefit they recieved as a child. Afterall we were all children once and a lot of us would have benefitted from our parents recieving child benefit/family allowance.

Point two is maybe they should go back to it being called familt allowance as then it doesnt get confused with the benefits that are means/circumstances tested.

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