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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zand" data-source="post: 2561774" data-attributes="member: 85197">Hmm.  Yes sounds good...but the same people are being  asked to pay more and more.This doesn't affect me, but if one partner earns more than £50k-£60k a year then family allowance is taken away, even if the other partner stays at home to care for the children.  When I was a stay at home mum, my years of staying home and receiving family allowance counted as NI payments towards my pension.  By staying home I supported my elderly parents and also working muns when they needed soneone to take their kids to school etc.  Why should someone who wants to make the same choices as  me be penalised twice, by not getting the family allowance and also not getting pension credits?  And now it could be a 3rd time by paying directly to the NHS?On the other hand, last week I read of a family receiving £84k in benefits? I know this is a rare case but shouldn't benefits be treated in the same way as salary?   i.e. no family allowance, no pension credits and tax payable at 40%If the level for high earners is set really high then these people would probably pay privately for most health care anyway.</blockquote>

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