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[Closed] Child Allowance........How do you spend yours ????

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Personally.....some very nice Australian shiraz. Perhaps a wee bottle or two of good Chardonay


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:11 pm
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Bought the kids clobber with it, came in very handy I must say


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:14 pm
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Gin and fags mostly. Doesn't everyone?


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:16 pm
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T Taxi actually uses it for the kids apparently


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:18 pm
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Just the one kid actually and seemed the right thing to do

Spent the tax credit on beer though


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:20 pm
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I meant for the kids


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:20 pm
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I rented a rowing machine with it


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:20 pm
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Putting it aside to pay for the uni fees (or deposit for a house). At this rate it'll let the little 'un about a months worth of a university course.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:25 pm
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child what?


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:26 pm
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Unless it goes into a separate account and you 'ring-fence' it, surely it's just a part of your income and gets spent along with the rest - or do you like talking bollocks?


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:28 pm
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Free money from the Government with no conditions. Paid for by Tax Payers


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:29 pm
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It goes in a pot with all the rest of the money.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:40 pm
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I think wifey uses it for food & clothes for the child.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:41 pm
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A gramme of cocaine a week


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:41 pm
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They have a bank account each and it goes there.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:42 pm
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Unless it goes into a separate account and you 'ring-fence' it, surely it's just a part of your income and gets spent along with the rest - or do you like talking bollocks?

That's what happens to ours, it becomes part of the household/family budget of which some is spent on the children.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 8:49 pm
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b r
you need to lighten up.
To be serious. Child allowance is not intended to be dumped into general family spend


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 9:01 pm
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pox riddled crack addicted single parent teenage whores for me...


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 9:04 pm
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My mum gives it to my brother. So he can spend it on clothes/phone/crack/socialising etc.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 9:06 pm
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@djglover you need a better dealer


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 9:28 pm
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To be serious. Child allowance is not intended to be dumped into general family spend

Really? What's its intended use?


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 9:39 pm
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School fees


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 9:40 pm
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We don't really spend it on gin and fags. Straight into a building society account for the little 'un.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 10:08 pm
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We get benefit for two kiddies and our monthly food/nappy bill has gone up by around £400 a month so it simply goes towards that.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 10:13 pm
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[i]To be serious. Child allowance is not intended to be dumped into general family spend [/i]

Oh, didn't realise - so looking back over the last month, it could have gone on any of the following:

*Ti/XTR/carbon, the wife horses, good wine, petrol for the V8, Jimmy Choo shoes, car tax for the 4x4, DVD's/CD's or possible just basic food and drink - or maybe it just subsidises my sons' school fees?

*Select whichever winds you up most.

And both been self-employed, we'll be able to 'sort' our income to make sure we still get it after the proposed changes 😉


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 10:15 pm
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To be serious. Child allowance is not intended to be dumped into general family spend

So what IS it to be spent on if not the family, of which the child/ren are a significant part.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 10:20 pm
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I spend mine on children. You have to save up for a few weeks for a good one though.


 
Posted : 14/10/2010 11:04 pm