£50K, on benefits.....not for long!!!

[BDG]

Well, you have to start some where - if you don't, you just don't start. The idea behind it is that people earning more than the £50K will have to do a self assessment to pay the child benefit back. People will just say 'stuff it' and stop claiming the benefit rather than going through the rigmarole of getting some money, paying the same amount back and then doing a tax return for the privilege.

As child benefit is only paid to one parent, I think data protection laws would stop the govt at looking at how much all household members earn. Also, working on a combined household income, it would not inspire people into bettering themselves - two parents on £24k a year each would doing nothing to better themselves for fear of losing some chicken feed government charity.