After a long wait. The Autumn Budget is finally here!!! 💰

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https://news.sky.com/story/budget-2025-raft-of-tax-hikes-expected-today-as-more-policies-confirmed-13475413

Anyone like to join me in watching the budget today?

The point is drivers of petrol cars pay tax per mile already on fuel.

And what about weekends if you have no family and the dad won’t help or be reliable with contact? Which childcare do you see being available on a weekend? Very little Unless you go with a nanny like which single Parent can afford that? Yes a mum can stay at home and still receive the extra help because she is lucky enough to have a husband who stayed

Great speech by Badenoch! Funny yet totally eviscerating.

I am very torn on the two child benefit cap. Ideally, people should pay for their children. However, we need babies and children shouldn’t be punished for their parents.

i guess the key thing will be the effect in the long run, whether the children grow up to be productive or the next generation of benefit takers (on average).

Presumably you wouldn’t apply for a job that requires weekend availability.

I’m assuming this affects you personally and whilst I get what you’re saying, what’s the alternative?

Remove benefit cap for everyone? Where would the incentive to work be, we already have a huge, ever increasing welfare bill.

And how many jobs do you see that don’t require you to work weekends 😅 mostly every job will require SOME weekend hours to be worked. There is absolutely nothing proper in place to help single Parents!

If they did manage to find and secure suitable work for 16 hours a week, they would benefit from the lifting of the cap that everyone is demonising.
So, really, it's a no-win situation for poor people. Criticised if you're really poor and criticised if you're working on a low income and entitled to sufficient government support.

The percentage of families impacted by the child benefit cap and with a disability is 40%. They will be exempt from the total benefit cap whether they work or don't work

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025#benefit-cap

All other families will potentially be on a huge hourly wage if those 16 hours mean they can claim £10k extra a year if they have 5 kids.

The incentive to work is that you're still better off working because the benefit cap exists.

Criticised if you have loads of children you can't support yourself you mean? Yes, of course you will be criticised. Those children didn't ask to be born into poverty. Now the state are effectively blackmailing the taxpayer to step in and fund their kids to keep them out of poverty. This will directly take money away from taxpayer's own children... Of course there will be criticism. It is totally irresponsible to have all these children.

I’m not criticising anyone.

If the help is there and you’re entitled, take it?

Yes, if you read my post properly you would see I asked what would the alternative be?
Remove the benefit cap altogether.
If they removed the cap, what would the incentive to work be.

We need absent or non-contributing fathers to step up and share the financial responsibility for all of their children. Why would any woman welcome the opportunity to fund someone else’s child when the absent parent is able to, but won’t?

Especially to the tune of £2-3.5bn!

I mostly agree with you - merging and simplifying taxes generally. Gut reaction is that I think the “no luxury” cars under motability seems ok, although I don’t have much knowledge of the scheme and would like to know what disabled people and groups think. I am sure there’ll be unintended consequences somewhere.

I don’t often check what jobs are available at the moment as I work.
Monday to Friday - no weekends, as plenty of other people I know.

Some people create obstacles rather than looking for solutions.

Yes, we need proper legal consequences for non-contributing absent parents.

Only if you work in schools which not everyone can, sometimes there is no solution
which works places do you know that allows a parent to have every holiday off every bank Holidsy every inset day off and don’t say ‘ holiday clubs’ as childcare doesn’t stretch that far

This explanation needs to be pinned to the top of each page!

So mothers who are made redundant are supposed to do what?
When a parent develops an illness or disability, what should they do?
When a partner leaves, what are the options?
Shall those parents just give up their parental rights?

Also, families may have had the children when they COULD support them, but cost of living since the pandemic has dramatically impacted finances. Increased mortgage rates or renting costs, higher energy and water rates, extortionate food shopping.

To think of it as black and white is completely ignorant to the economic and person struggles human beings currently face in the UK.

More expensive cars have greater initial depreciation, more expensive insurance, more expensive servicing and more expensive repairs. They are not good value for the tax payers. In 99 out of 100 cases there are likely better mid tier choices.

As said previously, universal credit pay 85% back, plus there are free holiday clubs for people on universal credit.

Not in my area there isn’t. I’ve alterations looked into this !!

Didn’t think there would be.

I support lifting the cap for working families. I feel terribly for situations where sometimes both parents work and they still can't make ends meet. They deserve support.

What I don't agree with is more money where both parents are out of work. Give them vouchers, food stamps, access to education and support (Surestart should be brought back) but not just more money to spend unaccountably. That shouldn't be controversial but I'm sure it would be trampling on someone's human rights.

And I completely agree that absent, non-paying fathers should be made to contribute by law or face penalties, including prison.

If your out of work you don’t get the extra support don’t people read 😅

What do you mean? What extra support?

I do read although your post was quite hard to understand with the complete lack of punctuation.