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“Nick Clegg has said ministers will seek to overturn a Lords defeat for plans to cap benefits for households at £26,000, when the bill returns to the Commons.”

The bill was rejected by Peers after they voted to exclude child benefit from the overall cap. Members of the Lords claimed that it was unfair for the cap to be the same for childless households as households with multiple children, but the government responded that the cap simply brings families on benefit into line with working households.

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^^ My opinion (E.Davies); I completely agree with introducing a cap on child benefit. Although I completely understand the need for child benefit, and that households with more children do need more money but not treating it as equally as other benefits that are being capped is not going to act as an initiative for people to work. The point of these cuts is to prevent people from staying off work on the basis of ‘I earn more on benefits than I ever could working’. If child benefits are not capped like other benefits, families, expecially those of the ‘underclass’ will continue to have children to gain money from the welfare state and not go to work, further weakening the economy. As earlier mentioned I do see the need for more money in households which have more children, perhaps there could be a seperate cap for child benefit within the overall cap on benefits. This child benefit cap should meet the needs of individual households but not exceed the overall cap which would if exceeded,prevent people from going to work.