James Archer

Of course the fairest thing in both cases would be to assess household income rather than individual income when charging back household benefits through the income tax system.

10.06.2025 06:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In Child Benefit the whole benefit is charged back from the highest earner, even if the lower earner isn't earning at all. It seems applying this same tweak to the High Income Child Benefit charge would help make that fairer as well.

10.06.2025 06:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking over the government's very welcome U-Turn on Winter Fuel allowance. The situation is now very similar to another household benefit, that is child benefit. Except the government has divided the benefit between the two pensioners before then charging back through the tax system.

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