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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
1) with the 26k cap (if they would actually enforce it) benefits are already effectively capped at 3 children, 2 if you live in a high rent price area.
2) The vouchers idea is impractical verging on impossible, as you don't just live on "food". You have food, shelter, utilities, other household essentials (cleaning, bathing etc), transport... all to consider. who decides the ratio of benefits paid as each? Especially as they vary from household to household? Where can vouchers be redeemed? is it only supermarkets for food? What about clothes? Much cheaper 2nd hand online but presumably that wouldn't be an option with vouchers. Who handles VAT - do retailers have to pay cash VAT on money they only have a government IOU for? And what sort of administrative staff would be needed to implement something like this? Not only handing out said vouchers, but paying out the money to the retailers who are redeeming them. Not to mention the obvious potential for retailers to scam the system, redeeming more vouchers than they have actually taken... The scale involved to actually account for each and every voucher would make being "exact" pretty much impossible. oh and what about change? are the vouchers given out as 1p tokens? or as £5 vouchers? what if you're only spending £2.50? do you get change in vouchers, or cash, or just not at all?
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I personally wouldn't like to see any population control at all.
As to paying the benefits in food vouchers, that just wouldn't work at all either,I disagree with any move to that whatsoever.
It would likely in fact cause more poverty overall and not help at all, those who were paid in food vouchers would soon be able to easily find other people who would give them cash for the vouchers and under the food vouchers value too.
If people are entitled to benefits them pay them like others get paid with funds into their accounts and not discriminate because they need benefits by them paying them in 'vouchers'.
Benefits are there as a right and if people are genuinely entitled to them then there should be no conditions as to how they are paid.
Just pay them.
I don't think too that controls on the children anyone can have as to numbers is a good road to go down either so as I said at the start,I am against that too.