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bobbieinok

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4. My impression was

Reply to HipChick (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 10:10 AM

Oct 2017

There had been subsidy for each child. When govt stopped giving help after 2nd child, people who had more than 2 children and no longer got help with the 3rd plus child felt like they were being penalized.

Got impression this withdrawal was part of severe austerity program Tories implemented after world financial crisis.

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UK has penalty for 3rd child?!? [View all] bobbieinok Oct 2017 OP

Not providing a subsidy for simply having a third is not a penalty. Weekend Warrior Oct 2017 #1

There were prob talking about child benefit, there are no penalties for 3rd child in UK HipChick Oct 2017 #2

My impression was bobbieinok Oct 2017 #4

They've stopped giving child tax credit for the third (or more) child if born after 2017 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2017 #3