egafd.com

"The figures are stark and astonishing: because of the huge bias in favour of single parenthood that prevails in the tax credit system, a single mother with two children under the age of 11 who works 16 hours a week on the minimum wage, receives, largely thanks to tax credits, an income of ?487.

A two-parent family, on the other hand, also with two children under 11, in which either one or both partners works for the minimum wage, would have to put in a total of 116 hours a week to take home the same income."

"In effect, unmarried women with children are being bribed to remain single, while existing two-parent families are penalised."

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Aint NuLabour great

Why isn't Dave going for the jugular on this?

This goverment does encourage young girls to get pregnant because of the way it doshes the money out and the rest of us have to pay for it, now if i got a girl pregnant then i would feel it was my duty to support her and the kid but why should i help support other peoples kids when in a lot of cases neither parents have ever worked or payed anything into the system !annoyed!