2007-09-09 04:35:37 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I save ours and it pays for the family holiday each year.
2007-09-09 04:41:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 8⤋
I use mine for food & anything that we, as a family need, which also includes contributing towards household bills at times. I completely disagree with Patrick - just because people with children may have been able to afford to have them at the time, doesn't mean the situation won't change! I was working fulltime in a job I hated when I first had my daughter. To ensure a better future for us both, I decided to return to uni & I am now a student nurse (needing the child benefit more then ever!). There is far more to raising a family than money. Surely setting a good example to succeed through determination has to count for something....?
2007-09-09 14:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by zedjey 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should be used for the benefit of the child, but in most cases it isn't. Stand in the Post Office and watch how many scratch cards are bought when they receive Child Benefit.
2007-09-09 16:50:04 · answer #3 · answered by flint 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think anything at all which goes directly to your child or benefits your child. Not for anything else.
2007-09-09 11:54:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
child benefit is given for the use for the child...........BUT it depends on what your circumstances are...if you are like me I was a single parent and EVERY penny counted, some times I would use it for food, or for saving for birthdays etc.
Whilst I know that child benefit is a good thing I feel it should be a means tested one..........how can the queen still be eligible for child benefit [which she WAS] surely it does not have the same need as it did for me.
regards.
EDIT : see what I mean by Jo's reply............not knocking you Hun, but you going without your 2 weeks away surely does not fall into the same category as it meaning the difference if food is on the table or not.
2007-09-09 11:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by candy g 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
its to help with the costs of raising a child. when first introduced it was only given for the second child in the family to help promote breeding after the second world war. now its given freely to anyone who has a child.
2007-09-09 11:42:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
to benefit the child ie clothes and food
2007-09-09 11:40:41 · answer #7 · answered by big dave 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
'to benefit the child'
Think that covers it
2007-09-09 11:42:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
It is for the benefit of the whole family according to gov. publications and that is what it should be spent on the whole family
2007-09-09 15:25:05 · answer #9 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it should be used to benefit children-thats why they called it that.
You should spend it on your children, if you are poor you have to buy essentials with it. if you are rich I guess you buy them luxuries or put it into a savings account for when they get older so they can buy themselves a porsche.
2007-09-09 11:49:12 · answer #10 · answered by dances 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to help provide for childs basic needs
2007-09-09 11:50:10 · answer #11 · answered by pheonix140180 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋