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Bill: Child Benefit Provision
Details
Submitted by[?]: We Say So! Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2648
Description[?]:
| Accepting that people who choose to have children must accept responsibility for those children, whilst also accepting that during periods of hardship incomes may prevent those children from being supported as would be the ideal, the government will provide child benefit to those people designated as low income or poor. Child benefit will be determined by means testing of household incomes so as to guarantee that children are not penalised by low income households whilst helping to guarantee that State funds are not provided to those without need. Benefit provision will also fall by 10% per additional child past the second so as not to encourage people having children to provide their household incomes. Child benefit will last from birth until the child reaches the age of 18, where they become officially before the law, an adult. From age 16 total benefit drops by 10HCR per week. Maximum provisions age 0 - 16: 40HCR in food vouchers per week (provided by post). 30HCR in direct cash payment into parent/guardians bank account per week (to be determined by consultation with parent(s)/guardian(s)). Total income CB: 3640HCR per annum for first 2 children. Maximum provision age 16 - 18: 40HCR in food vouchers per week (provided by post). 20HCR in direct cash payment into parent/guardians bank account per week (to be determined by consultation with parent(s)/guardian(s)). Total income CB: 3120HCR per annum for first 2 children. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state does not provide child benefit.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:22:29, October 06, 2008 CET | From |  Hobrazian Extraordinary Gentlemen's Club | To | Debating the Child Benefit Provision |
| Message | hmmm. didn't your party oppose any subsidies to low income families a while while ago? |
| Date | 09:12:35, October 07, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Child Benefit Provision |
| Message | Not child benefit, we introduced them. |
| Date | 09:02:22, October 09, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Child Benefit Provision |
| Message | Shouldn't this have finished by now? Voting deadline: December 2648 Date: April 2649 |
| Date | 09:07:09, October 09, 2008 CET | From | Hobrazian Extraordinary Gentlemen's Club | To | Debating the Child Benefit Provision |
| Message | o.O |
| Date | 09:07:47, October 09, 2008 CET | From | Hobrazian Extraordinary Gentlemen's Club | To | Debating the Child Benefit Provision |
| Message | I am sure Freemen's party is to blame, somehow :) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 158 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 214 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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