Additional 550eur for self employed is good-but not enough.

Single pensioners not happy. Rte prime time.

I dunno about you but I’m always texting Mars bars – yet to reply the rude feckers.

It takes a long time for a text message to get to Mars and back.

I would like to know what you consider to be “great money” and you would be surprised how much tax she would pay for earning it. Typical Irish begrudgry.

I also bank my child support money for her college education. Why shouldn’t she be entitled to it? My husband and I work very hard for our wages and pay an awful lot of tax. It’s the only thing we get back from the government and I think my daughter deserves this money. Children are supposed to be equal in this society, the money is for her, not me or her dad.

and I guess you don’t have kids eimar.

Exactly Linda.

Children’s allowance is actually paid to the children, who have no other income by the way, so they can’t get taxed on it.

The money is paid to the parents in trust for the children.

Unless FG bring the tax bracket below €140/month for all earners, it’s impossible to tax children’s allowance

This nonsense comes up every year and no one bothers to find out the facts.

I don’t understand why anyone would object to a parent banking their child support allowance. If it’s for their children’s future. (ie) To help put them through college.To help with that deposit to buy their first home when they grow up. etc… After all it is then been used for the children its meant to be used for.

How dare that woman fritter away her child support on saving for her child’s education! Is there an anonymous phone number where you can report her?

I’ma guess a lot of editing

That’s it. A lot of editing, a fondness for commenters and a lack of sleep.

Christine, the calculator doesn’t take into account the charges in pay that will already affect public sector workers from 1st January as a result of the Lansdowne Road Agreement. There is a reduction in the rate of pension levy which will mean a reduction of 600€ p.a. from 1st January and an extra 400€ p.a from later in the year. These will increase public sector take home pay also in 2016.

Will check that out Bernard, thanks.

Did you heard that everybody? She’s find of us!

Christina, May I ask was this calculator adjusted in some way since last night? I calculated last night and again today and there was a difference of nearly 500€ less in net income today.

Remember how Brian Cowen et al sunk this country by using your money to buy electoral popularity by pumping up the Social Welfare ATM? Well, guess what Joan Burton hopes to do to buy your vote in the forthcoming election.

Won’t be getting my vote anyway. Have never gotten anything out of any government except rode!!!!

…ridden…

Are you that kid who’s mother banked his college fees? Well done Mrs Huban, well done!

Well eimar with everything swinging in roundabouts ! poor people shouldn’t have kids ???? wow !

Well no they shouldn’t Derek. I understand accidents happen but you really shouldn’t be having kids if you cannot afford to have them. It’s as simple as. It’s unfair on a child to be raised in poverty and some of us prefer not to weigh on the tax system and social welfare system by squeezing one out every few months.

If that’s what you took from it then maybe I need to explain. I didn’t say anyone shouldn’t have kids. I asked the question if you are already struggling to get by, why would you put yourself under more pressure?
I have friends who are teachers and see small kids coming to school with no lunch and usually had no breakfast either. So how is that fair on the kids. Even with children’s allowance those parents can’t afford to feed their kids.

so these kids have no breakfast and lunch and you want to take the children’s allowance off the family’s .

mando is there a certain amount of money you have to earn before you can have kids ? if you have them yourself you’ll know you can never afford them but you the adult make sacrifices in your life to give them the best you can.

Eimear seriously?! I work full time 37.5 hrs a week, im married an fortunate enough my husband also works… I have done so an paid my taxes on a full time wage for the last 15 years, I contribute to all those collecting social welfare… I WANT to have kids an my own family, im due a baby in 7 weeks, I do not receive any payment from my workplace of 10 years wile I take my maternity leave, I am however “entitled” to claim the MB of the state at €230 a week, which is taxed, this is the same amount somebody who has never worked a day in their life or contributed a penny to the system is also “entitled” to… so yes u bet ur bottom dollar I wil welcome tat Child benefit with open arms every month… why… because I’ve paid my way into it… And u or anybody else cant tell me any different. It’s as if benefits is free money to a vast majority claiming it, I’ve no problem helping out those in need but the system is milked to the gills and I won’t be punished for 1. Wanting to have my own family and 2. Because somebody behind a desk is handing out free money. There isn’t only 2 scales like u suggest of those well off and then those poverty stricken. Wer middle class, and I won’t be claiming to beat the band for free this and that. I will reduce my working week to part time an family members wil support so I cut the cost of ridiculous childcare and get to spend time with my child… These are mine an my husbands decisions and decisions tat sadly for you we are entitled to make! Excuse the rant but ur attitude regarding working people wanting kids is out of line in my opinion!

didn’t even read that article far to long break it up into paragraphs you went to all that actual effort to get your opinion out but nobody can see it.

why sugarcoat what you said?

I have friends who are teachers also and from what they say, there is a small minority of parents who, even if they were getting €10,000 a month in child benefit, would still be sending in the kids without a breakfast or a lunch. Think any social worker would confirm this. BTW, these kids usually have the latest electronic gadgetry thanks to our generous social welfare.

100% agree with you.
Many people get social welfare and maternity benefit having never contributed by working. So yes I totally agree with you. And if you choose to put the money away for your child to have access to in later years then fair play to you that’s your choice to make. And congratulations on your pregnancy!

Don’t read it then Matt it’s no skin off my nose but comments Eimear wrote really annoy me an I see it all the time on the journal slating people like meself tat chose to have kids tat pay there way on every level in this country. Thanks Tara, chances are it wil be used an a lil extra each month into the house hold but but it’s a great incentive even to be used as a college fund.. esp as I say for those who have, all their life, paid into the system. I don’t see it as a free handout, I see it as gettin something back for the amount of money I’ve paid in over the years and deservedly so on both mine and my husbands part…

It’s wrong that some children go to school hungry, but some schools give the children breakfast & lunch. They are funded under scheme if they have enough children from certain poor areas.

if you are ‘middle class’, as you described yourself and your husband then you should at least be able to spell, punctuate a sentence and arrange your rants into coherent paragraphs. Seriously, tat?? gettin?? an I see it ??? Where the hell did you learn English ???

Jaysis Kevin no need to be so wound up over somebody’s grammar.. im not sitting an English exam here! Il spell as I please, like I said to Matt, if ya dont like me comments or what I write den don’t read or react to them! Did ur Mammy never tell ya if ya have nothing nice to say THEN don’t say anything at al…. and ur class discrimination doesn’t determine how I CHOOSE to spell me words… notice I use me instead of my… don’t let tat upset ya either! But I’d a great education thanks for enquiring! also just a heads up… I use the return key but for some silly reason my paragraphs aren’t posting as u wud like them too… oops!

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I wouldn’t know anything about that.