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    I'm probably going to be repeating points made by other posters but I cannot be silent on this subject. My family would never have survived if it hadn't been for tax credits. We are only entitled to Child Tax Credit as I earn too much for Working Tax Credit but that benefit feeds my family as the only thing I can afford from my wage is the household bills. When Chris and I were first married we were living (badly) on a salary of £10K per year, I defy anyone with a family to survive on that money without help. Ah ha! I hear you cry, if you could not afford to have children, why have them... etc. Trust me, there is no such thing as being able to afford children, those people that wait to have children until they can afford them, rarely have them and if everyone had that attitude, where would the population of the country be.

    My wages are considerably more than previously stated now, I am considered to be in middle management and my salary is considered to be above national average (what a joke that is, don't get me started). I haven't been unemployed since the six months after leaving university when I was trying to find a job, so it is partially my taxes that pay for my benefit and I thank heavens for them otherwise my family would be in dire straits indeed.

    I get very tired of hearing that people who claim benefits are sponges on the state (I'm not saying that anyone here said that, I'm just saying that I've heard it previously). Benefits should always be there to support people who are either unable to work (due to illness, child care or lack of employment oppotunities) and those who do work but do not have enough to support their family in a moderate lifestyle and for goodness sake it's not as if we go on foreign holidays or have fancy goods, we don't go on holiday at all and don't even have a car (not that either of us can drive lol!). So when I say moderate life style I really do mean moderate, but at least we get to eat.

    Rant over.

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