Why Child benefit is NEVER nonsense

The Observer, UK -... The Chancellor is also planning to introduce child benefit for all expectant mothers in the 29th week of pregnancy from 2009. This .....Child benefit extension is nonsense ................

Child benefit is much easier to claim than tax credits, and because it is not means tested there is no stigma attached. Its take-up is therefore much greater, so a pragmatist would say this move ensures more of the poorest mothers will actually get help with the costs of having a baby.

...So here we have a woman taking nonsense. That is what the tax system is for. Would you have Jordan, Posh, Davina prevented from sending their chldren to a state school, prevented from going to the local doctors surgery and kept out of NHS hospitals etc?

Women fought so hard and long to keep child benefit as a right for all and exempted from means testing. It has been terribly eroded over the years, however did this woman journalist realise that many women may have wealthy husbands but rely on child benefit to get by.

Gordon's little secret - there's nothing for his successor to ...
The Observer, UK -
... somewhere at a future date. Pregnant women have been promised that they will start to receive child benefit - but not until 2009. ..