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This is simply wrong & it is not government policy moreover UK is the most densely populated country in Europe after Malta. There is a benefit payment given in
by vixen99 11y ago
This is simply wrong & it is not government policy moreover UK is the most densely populated country in Europe after Malta. There is a benefit payment given in respect of all children under 16 who have parents earning less than around 60K pounds pa.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoThe UK may be densely populated, but if it doesn't produce enough children then its demographics will be top heavy and there won't be enough people of working age to support those in retirement. We're currently below the replacement rate. If you pay people to do something, that is generally considered by economists to incentivize that behaviour, so how is giving thousands of pounds to families not a government policy to encourage people to have kids? They did recently limit the payments to people earning more than 60,000 pounds a year, but the average wage is less than half of that.