Keep the Existing Child Benefit Regime Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/keep-the-existing-child-benefit-regime.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:46 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mrs Alice Gahan [Signature #1013] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10230364?utm_medium=rss Household income of £44k can't get the benefit and a household income of £80k can? A way to save money to pay off debt and not isolate a paticular part of society is to use the existing child tax credit system and reset the thresholds. E.g people already fill in forms for tax credits, scrap child benefit and everyone with a child fills in the tax credit form and is given payments on their household income. I do not mind having less payments than those on less hh income but thats not what they a

]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:35:36 UTC 10230364 mrs Anonymous [Signature #1012] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10229160?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:19:37 UTC 10229160 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #1011] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10226263?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:27:20 UTC 10226263 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #1010] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10224686?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:56:02 UTC 10224686 Mrs Veronica Bulpitt [Signature #1009] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10100210?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:19:45 UTC 10100210 Mrs Teresa Tyrer [Signature #1008] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10093036?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:32:07 UTC 10093036 mrs tracey mcroberts [Signature #1007] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10048400?utm_medium=rss we chose to cut our luxurys and for me to be a stay at home mum as we believe there is nothing better for our child. now you tell me i cannot claime child benefit from 2013 and i have also been told that i do not have national insurance contributions paid for me either which will directly impact my pension. this is discriminatory and will force me to go back to work. i have worked all of my life and just wanted to do the best for my child before i went back to work when they start school -

]]> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:13:32 UTC 10048400 Mr Andrew lovelace [Signature #1006] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10031177?utm_medium=rss Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:41:18 UTC 10031177 Anonymous [Signature #1005] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10022562?utm_medium=rss Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:12:40 UTC 10022562 Lynn MacLauchlan [Signature #1004] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9951830?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:20:06 UTC 9951830 Mrs Gaynor Bickley [Signature #1003] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9794032?utm_medium=rss Ridiculous -2 people on 43K joint family income 86k - still get child benefit.

1 person on £45k - joint family income £45k they do not get child benefit.

]]> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:05:28 UTC 9794032 ms catherine whatmough [Signature #1002] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9786418?utm_medium=rss Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:50:08 UTC 9786418 Miss Carol Kearns [Signature #1001] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9707213?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:33:10 UTC 9707213 Mr Andrew Sims [Signature #1000] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9701228?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:41:00 UTC 9701228 Anonymous [Signature #999] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9697330?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:54:20 UTC 9697330 Mrs Susan Kingston [Signature #998] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9692570?utm_medium=rss An important universal benefit that should not be taken away from the parents or children.

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:40:19 UTC 9692570 Jennifer Mitchell [Signature #997] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9689795?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:13:16 UTC 9689795 Rachel Clark [Signature #996] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9494600?utm_medium=rss It is us middle-income families that are being targetted again!

]]> Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:08:17 UTC 9494600 Mr Adam Birkinshaw [Signature #995] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9456475?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:16:09 UTC 9456475 Mrs Michaela Newport [Signature #994] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9455849?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:58:20 UTC 9455849 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #993] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9422688?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:26:32 UTC 9422688 Mr Matthew Skelhorn [Signature #992] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9415231?utm_medium=rss An entirely unfair proposal, that could be better sorted by merging the data held on tax credits with the data held by child benefit to generate a household income, on which to base any cuts.

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:38:47 UTC 9415231 Mr Adam Hewitt [Signature #991] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9352295?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:49:39 UTC 9352295 ms amina mangera [Signature #990] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9335693?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:46:01 UTC 9335693 Mr Tom Vincent [Signature #989] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9317324?utm_medium=rss It's unfair, if it were based on combined income it would not be such a unjust legislation.

]]> Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:04:53 UTC 9317324 Mr Tom Jousselin [Signature #988] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9315921?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:39:16 UTC 9315921 Dr Jane Desmarais [Signature #987] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9309710?utm_medium=rss Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:48:41 UTC 9309710 mr richard brett [Signature #986] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9291628?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:57:37 UTC 9291628 Ms Eleanor Saunders [Signature #985] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9291560?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:46:37 UTC 9291560 Mr Anonymous [Signature #984] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9289197?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:47:05 UTC 9289197 Dr Will Edwards [Signature #983] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9288925?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:02:08 UTC 9288925 MR Anonymous [Signature #982] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9287086?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:24:30 UTC 9287086 jude davenport [Signature #981] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9286518?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:06:43 UTC 9286518 Mr John Wadsworth [Signature #980] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9286359?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:46:26 UTC 9286359 Ms Zoe Jacob [Signature #979] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9286123?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:19:54 UTC 9286123 Dr Olivia Swift [Signature #978] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9285940?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:01:48 UTC 9285940 Matthew Ward [Signature #977] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9285454?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:12:35 UTC 9285454 Kirsten Forkert [Signature #976] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9284864?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:15:28 UTC 9284864 Mrs Pernilla Rosenberg [Signature #975] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9284183?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:51:28 UTC 9284183 Ms Julia Lockheart [Signature #974] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9282861?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:19:00 UTC 9282861 Ms Nadine Jarvis [Signature #973] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9282803?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:12:23 UTC 9282803 Mr Terence E Rosenberg [Signature #972] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9282724?utm_medium=rss The scrapping of child benefit is senseless - it also gives rise to iniquitous anomalies (for instance, a couple earning collectively over £80,000 will get the allowance whereas and in a situation where one of the couple is earning just over £45,000 and the other say about £5000 (so together £50000) they are ineligible. The proposed reformation of this allowance is heavy handed.

]]> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:04:07 UTC 9282724 Ms Ruth Edwards-Grace [Signature #971] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9282392?utm_medium=rss Child Trust Fund payments were the first to go, then the cuts to Tax Credits and now we stand to lose our Child Benefit. Why are families being punished in this way? With increases in VAT and petrol price rises, freezing or loss of salaries, etc, etc. How can parents even begin to save for the payment of HE tuition fees when being stretched in this way. We need child benefit to meet the endless weekly costs involved when raising children.

]]> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:24:05 UTC 9282392 Mr Vikas Aggarwal [Signature #970] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9152046?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:49:26 UTC 9152046 ms fiona reid [Signature #969] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9086645?utm_medium=rss outrageous attack on women looking after children at home. Listen to women not men in suits, what do they know?

]]> Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:00:20 UTC 9086645 MISS CARLY MCKENZIE [Signature #968] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9031690?utm_medium=rss Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:24:51 UTC 9031690 Mrs Natasha Mattock [Signature #967] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9008699?utm_medium=rss If current plans are to go ahead then I shall be forced to go to work in 2013 to cover the shortfall that will be put upon our family. I have five children and I love being a full time mum, my husband works hard and earns a few K's over the threashold but losing the child benefit will tip us over the edge and our outgoings will be more than our incomings. Is this really fair when there will be families where both parents work out there earning 10's of k's more and will keep the benefit?

]]> Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:35:53 UTC 9008699 Mrs Sarah Gillard [Signature #966] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8938603?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:13:04 UTC 8938603 Mike Rowley [Signature #965] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8927922?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:43:03 UTC 8927922 Mr Hayden Atkinson [Signature #964] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8901667?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:13:11 UTC 8901667 Mrs Victoria Tarling [Signature #963] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8890653?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:31:48 UTC 8890653 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #962] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8839670?utm_medium=rss Totally unfair. Once again the hard-working middle man has been hit and we were under the illusion that this would change under the new government, how wrong we were!

]]> Sat, 6 Nov 2010 09:19:57 UTC 8839670 Ms Michele Flynn [Signature #961] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8811940?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Nov 2010 04:10:14 UTC 8811940 lucy tanner [Signature #960] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8809408?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Nov 2010 02:28:49 UTC 8809408 miss Kaylee Drew [Signature #959] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8808435?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:45:21 UTC 8808435 Mrs Louise Landen [Signature #958] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8807957?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:55:38 UTC 8807957 ms victoria wilkinson [Signature #957] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8807278?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Nov 2010 06:06:38 UTC 8807278 Mr Anonymous [Signature #956] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8805262?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:15:23 UTC 8805262 Mrs Zoe Elton [Signature #955] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8804374?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:49:45 UTC 8804374 Mrs Lucy Dempster [Signature #954] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8799662?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:46:03 UTC 8799662 Mr Robert Billington [Signature #953] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8799636?utm_medium=rss A totally unreasonable scheme for all stay at home mums who give their children a better start in life by actually being there and being their mom when needed

]]> Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:42:01 UTC 8799636 Mrs Susan Billington [Signature #952] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8799505?utm_medium=rss I was delighted when this government was formed but am so disappointed that you are hitting at the families so unfairly - YOU MUST think of another way of handling this to make it fair to everyone

]]> Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:21:10 UTC 8799505 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #951] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8799462?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:14:04 UTC 8799462 Stephen Berriff [Signature #950] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8799324?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:39:58 UTC 8799324 mrs anoop singh-best [Signature #949] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8798352?utm_medium=rss You MUST be able to see how unfair this is!!! Surely if anything, it should be based on total JOINT income???

]]> Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:40:17 UTC 8798352 greg alois [Signature #948] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8798284?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:09:20 UTC 8798284 Mrs Hilde Wilkinson [Signature #947] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8797546?utm_medium=rss This government proposal puts simplicity above fairness. The proposed child benefit cuts are especially unfair to large families with one parent staying at home to look after the children.

]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:23:24 UTC 8797546 Miss Nicola Olsen [Signature #946] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8797166?utm_medium=rss the cuts should be based on a joint income and not on one person earning more than £44000

]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:56:33 UTC 8797166 Mr Michael Firth [Signature #945] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8797118?utm_medium=rss If it has to be changed, the insidious injustice of penalising families with one earner of £45,000, but not penalising families with two earners of £40,000 each, totaling £80,000 has to be stopped.
As MPs are already saying the new plans will be impossible to enforce, I can't see how a much fairer suggestion of removing benefit from households with a combined income of over (say) £65,000 would be harder to enforce.

]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:45:05 UTC 8797118 Mrs Lesley Billington [Signature #944] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8797057?utm_medium=rss So unfair. This lets them know how many votes they won't be getting at the next election if they don't admit their mistake with this one.

]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:30:52 UTC 8797057 Mr Stuart Billington [Signature #943] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8797048?utm_medium=rss Unbelievable that the government won't admit that the changes are completely unreasonable (in that they are unnecessarily unfair). Well, governments respond to numbers, so lets hope this petition gets a lot of signatures...

]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:26:49 UTC 8797048 Mr Andrew Sims [Signature #942] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8796785?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:21:26 UTC 8796785 Mr James Fazzani [Signature #941] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8793788?utm_medium=rss I am a teacher who is only just earns over the threshold and have recently added to my family, so my partner has given up work to stay at home with our two children - the loss of child benefit will hit us hard. It is essentially another 'tax' to pay back the mess the government and banking world created. I really hope the new coalition see sense - how can two people earning just below still get it - even if they have a joint earnings of up to £80'000 where I lose it earning only £47'000? Fair?

]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:21:45 UTC 8793788 Mrs Michelle Rock-Davis [Signature #940] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8783514?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:45:48 UTC 8783514 Mr Ken Ball [Signature #939] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8782910?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:36:14 UTC 8782910 ms Anonymous [Signature #938] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8782828?utm_medium=rss Seems a very unfair policy

]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:17:36 UTC 8782828 ms Anonymous [Signature #937] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8775749?utm_medium=rss Unfair benefit cut that hits families . Money taken from women directly, needs to be a universal benefit. What next means testing health and education?

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:15:38 UTC 8775749 mr barry shaw [Signature #936] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8773467?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:01:59 UTC 8773467 Mrs Sarah Hammersley [Signature #935] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8773432?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:48:09 UTC 8773432 mrs mandy atkinson [Signature #934] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8771611?utm_medium=rss Make it fair or keep it!

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:33:17 UTC 8771611 Mr Anonymous [Signature #933] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8771080?utm_medium=rss Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:21:27 UTC 8771080 Mr Christopher Brady [Signature #932] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8770684?utm_medium=rss Totally agree, this proposal is utterly discriminatory and none of the supporters including my conservative MP Mr Fuller seem willing to explain the rationale of this unfair but presumably easy to implement cut. How can anyone suggest that a family with a joint income of £80K and one child should retain the benefit while a family with one parent - either a single parent family or, as is the case in my household, one disabled parent and only one able to work, with an income just over £43K and sup

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:32:39 UTC 8770684 Mrs Carole Eychenne [Signature #931] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8767250?utm_medium=rss Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:45:56 UTC 8767250 Mrs Ruth Shone [Signature #930] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8755011?utm_medium=rss Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:34:55 UTC 8755011 Mr Nick Childs [Signature #929] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8753063?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:15:27 UTC 8753063 miss Hayley grant [Signature #928] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8752692?utm_medium=rss I will be having my first child in 7 weeks. He will be 2 when these changes take place and as my partner earns just over the threshold I would not receive family tax credit if I returned to work, my wages would just cover the cost of childcare making it pointless to return to work. We will be struggle without my wage as it is, but the loss of child benefit will make this even harder....but yet a family earning double will still be entitled....take from the poor to feed the rich!!

]]> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:51:32 UTC 8752692 Mrs Stephanie Gayle [Signature #927] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8751075?utm_medium=rss Whilst the planned reform does not directly affect my family, I cannot comprehend the reasoning behind it - one family with both parents earning £40,000+ receiving benefits whilst another family with only one parent working and earning £45,000 suddenly entitled to nothing! Absolutely ludicrous and an utter disgrace.

]]> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:59:08 UTC 8751075 Mrs Claire Mills [Signature #926] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8749987?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:00:40 UTC 8749987 Mrs Lucy Leicester [Signature #925] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8749651?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:50:20 UTC 8749651 Mr Paul Crosbie [Signature #924] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8746486?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:59:13 UTC 8746486 Mrs Angharad Smith [Signature #923] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8745550?utm_medium=rss Reform the Child Tax Credit system so that it is fairly tapered and abolish Child Benefit altogether.

]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:43:53 UTC 8745550 Mrs Katherine Willey [Signature #922] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8744075?utm_medium=rss We are a one income family with four children. My hard working husband is unfairly taxed. We make sacrifices so that I can stay at home - one car, never eat out, no foreign holidays........I could go on and on. On principal I WILL NEVER GO OUT TO WORK because I work very hard but dont get paid. My children will be the balanced citizens of the future in this country - a commodity in short supply with falling birth rates being just one of our many problems. Alienate families at your peril.

]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:39:09 UTC 8744075 Mrs Bindi Shah [Signature #921] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8738566?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:57:55 UTC 8738566 claire buckseall [Signature #920] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8738060?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:25:11 UTC 8738060 mr syed miah [Signature #919] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8738012?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:15:45 UTC 8738012 alexandra lawton [Signature #918] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8734568?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:05:22 UTC 8734568 Miss Sylvia Hicks [Signature #917] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8734299?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:03:26 UTC 8734299 Mrs Tara Branson [Signature #916] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8734171?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:32:48 UTC 8734171 Mr Kenneth D Cross [Signature #915] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8734026?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:02:14 UTC 8734026 MRS HEATHER CURTIS [Signature #914] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8733976?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:48:05 UTC 8733976