Housing benefits may be axed for under 25s.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....t-from-under-25s.html

Is this a good idea or is it fraught with problems?

Would it also be a good idea to link benefit payments regionally – which would mean less money going to claimants who live in less-expensive parts of the country?

[Duncer]

Indeed.

Why is Jimmy Carr copping all the flak when (allegedly) Take That are doing exactly the same thing?

[ummmm]

Tamborine - yes, my Dad was the youngest of 13 and raised in a tiny 2 bed cottage. What has that got to do with it? That was a different era.

[daffy654]

Bednobs, my daughter's ex partner pays nothing towards the upkeep of his boys. He even threatened to give up his job if my daughter approaches the CSA for help in getting any money from him. He now has another baby with a woman he is engaged to, he also supports his fiancée's child from a previous relationship.

[sandyRoe]

The idea of the deserving and undeserving poor has the ring of Victorian morality about it.
This present lot of Tories would have made very good workhouse masters.

[Brenden]

Daffy, if he pays nothing towards the upkeep of his two sons your daughter has nothing to lose by reporting him to the CSA providing she can prove he is the father - I certainly would in her position.

[sandyRoe]

Isn't it the case that any money the CSA secure from the father is deducted from the mothers benefits?

[daffy654]

Brenden, he would give his job up and claim benefits, my daughter would then still get no money from him.

[EDDIE51]

The CSA are utterly useless and now they want the mother to pay to use their ''service'' and Yes anything the mum gets from the father is just deducted from her benefits.

[EDDIE51]

Ummmm , just put the details for a single mum with 3 , 4 or more kids in to this calcultor and see how much they get

http://www.turn2us.or.../benefits_search.aspx
How can a single mum earn that sort of money and pay for child care?

[Brenden]

I am not au fait with the benefits system but I would think that it is correct that anything the father pays should be deducted from the mothers benefits otherwise it is the taxpayer who is picking up the tab - at least he will be contributing to the upkeep of his children.

[Dodger666]

These Government proposals to cut/change/stop etc benefits are always announced with an accompanied may/could/might/maybe/perhaps etc.

The nett result is absolutely nothing will happen. If any changes are made then one Government department will take money from claimants with one hand and a different department will give it back with another. It will more than likely cost more to administer with hundreds more civil servants being required to operate it.

[bednobs]

i really don't understand why girls get together with these idiot men, let alone get pregnant by them!

[daffy654]

Bednobs, my daughter's ex seemed like a nice reliable man who had worked since leaving school. They had been together for 3 years before she got pregnant and they were planning to get married. I hardly think she can be to blame for him then going off with his bosses daughter and getting her pregnant too!

[ummmm]

Some, once the children come along, decide that family life isn't for them.

[cazzz1975]

there are too many variables and not enough information to form an opinion on this idea yet, only this morning Ian Duncan Smith when questioned almost backtracked and was generally vague about the whole idea.

[sandyRoe]

Isn't this really nothing more than another bit of Tory kite flying?