Lib Dem Simon Hughes – Benefit Reforms Will ‘Break Up Families’


If we want to change the welfare system firstly it has to be fair to both middle and lower class families alike. The system at present does not allow for anyone earning a low wage to be able to benefit as the word suggests from the constructi­on of the system at present, these are typical of these figures picked up from a comment. It is an example of the unfairness in the gearing.

As for the cap it should be in place. So as people who have been claiming 170K plus on benefits to live in Knightsbri­dge cannot claim these types of benefits.

Families of 5 kids have been getting the following

Housing benefit – 104,000
Child Tax Credit – 13,337.04
Income Support – 5,539.67
Council tax – 2,157.83
Child Benefit – 3,863.91
Free Schooling – 6000 * 5 = 30000
Free Health Care – 1800 * 7

Total 172,000
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 68 other followers