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	I bet you're saying goodbye to your Child benefit.
 	
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PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:26,
	
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	Funny name for a child.
 	
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 Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:26,
	
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	Never claimed it. 
 	
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 Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:27,
	
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	Doesn't it automatically get paid to Mrs Battered?
 	
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 tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:30,
	
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	I think you have to claim it.
 	
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PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:31,
	
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	You do, yeah.
 	It's not an automatic benefit, you still have to fill in a form and provide proof of birth.
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 Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:34,
	
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	Not sure. I think that's only if she has submitted the forms for it, which I would have had to sign and I never have. 
 	
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 Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:31,
	
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	My mistake - you do need to claim
 	She shouldn't need your signature though. Or is that a personal arrangement?
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	I think it is because we are married and benefits are based on total household income. 
 	
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 Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:35,
	
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	Child benefit isn't.
 	It is a universal benefit.
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dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:37,
	
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	Ah. I didn't know this. Not entitled to it anyway I think. 
 	As the BBC website budget report says "The salary threshold at which child benefit stops being paid will be set at £50,000"
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 Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:38,
	
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	It's stopped fully at £60k,
 	1% reduction per £100 over £50k
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PsychoChomp, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:41,
	
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	indeed.
 	Quite right too.
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dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 21 Mar 2012, 13:42,
	
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	I thought they'd changed it
 	so that you don't get it if one parent earned over £40k?
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	That was just the rumour
 	confirmation is it's £50k-£60k
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	maybe you should
 	Seeing as how you suffer so much from paying tax on the entirety of your six figure salary, amirite?
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