The children’s commissioners of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have written to the UK government calling on it to scrap the controversial two-child limit restricting the amount that larger families can receive in social security benefits.They want to ensure their jobs. So of course, they need to increase child misery, and what better way to do it than by fighting government plans to decrease it?
While the administrations in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast have put tackling child poverty at the top of their agenda, the control of benefits such as universal credit and child tax credit is not devolved, which limits their power to make changes that could help youngsters experiencing deprivation.
Sensible decision not to devolve it; the government clearly saw what would happen.
The limit, which was introduced as way of cutting £1bn a year from the welfare bill, bars parents from claiming the child element in tax credits or universal credit for third or subsequent children born after 6 April 2017.
The loss of benefits is worth £2,900 per child per year. The open letter to Coffey claims the limit breaches children’s rights to an adequate standard of living and is contributing to a rising gap in poverty levels between families with three or more children and smaller households.
If anyone's 'breaching children's rights to an adequate standard of living', it's their parents first and foremost. And then the advocates for indiscriminate and irresponsible breeding.
It also noted that the policy also has disproportionate impacts on social groups where larger families are more common, such as some minority faith and ethnic groups and in Northern Ireland, where families are larger than the rest of the UK.
Ah, if all else fails, proffer the Race Card.
I think that child benefit should be increased for those parents who are both in work with at least one parent working full time and the second doing at least 16 hours per week. Obviously with pre school children a parent usually cannot work until the youngest starts school so these parents should be given enough to live on until the youngest starts school (one parent should still be working full time even with pre schoolers) but the necessary issue is to make work a more ideal way of life. Instead of focusing on how to cut money, the government should focus on how to make working appealing.
ReplyDelete"disproportionate impacts on social groups where larger families are more common, such as some minority faith and ethnic group"
ReplyDeletePerfect justification for limiting the benefit, especially as the relevant offspring are likely to be genetically-damaged by inbreeding, stabby, terrorist, drug-dealery, half-wit, social undesirables.
It appears it is mainly those who make no, or little, contribution to society, and their social and political supporters, who whinge the most about the 2 child limit. After all, it's only those who do contribute to society who has to pay.
ReplyDeletePenseivat
Is personal responsibility such a difficult concept to grasp? If you bring children into the world it is your responsibility to feed and take care of them. If they are going without, it isn't the government's fault, it's yours.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that there are too many children being brought into this world by uneducated parents. They stay uneducated and naturally follow their parents pattern. Instead of dictating about responsibility, the key is to break the cycle and educate.
Delete"Instead of focusing on how to cut money, the government should focus on how to make working appealing."
ReplyDeleteThe government needs to make not working so unappealing that the natural choice is made...
"Perfect justification for limiting the benefit..."
Indeed! You'd think it would be a no-brainer.
"It appears it is mainly those who make no, or little, contribution to society, and their social and political supporters, who whinge the most about the 2 child limit."
Plus those in fakecharities and government who don't bear the consequences of living in proximity to them, don't forget!
"Is personal responsibility such a difficult concept to grasp?"
It never used to be. But we've bred dependency into a large (and growing) sector of the population.
"The problem is that there are too many children being brought into this world by uneducated parents."
Spot on!