Welfare baby number 12

[Jazzy]

Mother of 11 who receives £36,000 of benefits a year is expecting baby number 12

A mother who has 11 children and receives £38,000 of benefits a year is allegedly expecting baby number 12.

Cheryl Prudham, 32, recently posted a picture of a baby scan to Facebook with the caption ‘Prudham baby #12′.

Her and husband Robert’s new arrival will make them eligible for an extra £700 a year in benefits, the Sun reports.

Cheryl gave birth to twins in August, and caused outrage when she announced that she and her husband ‘don’t use condoms’, and didn’t plan any of their children.

News of her twelfth child has led to campaigners commenting that the UK’s benefit system encourages families to have children who they can’t afford.

TaxPayers Alliance chief executive Jonathan Isaby told the Sun: ‘It’s nobody’s place to tell this couple how many kids they can have, but there must be a point where the state stops paying for them.’

The Proudhams, who can exceed the £26,000-per-year cap on benefits because both Cheryl and Robert work 20 hours a week as carers, sparked further controversy earlier this year when they were photographed on a family holiday in Spain.

Robert also reportedly bought his wife an £8,000 car recently.

Arthur Cornell, chairman of the Family Education Trust, said there is a danger of children becoming a ‘commodity because they provide an income’.

Thoughts?

 

[Nebulous]

I'm sure they love their children and all, but you have to wonder if they would have that many if they were earning an income themselves. I'd say a mandatory vasectomy and tubes tied needs to be placed on the the two.

 

[+paradox]

way too many children if you can't take care of the ones you already have then no baby making, jesus, it's common sense...

 

[seasidemike]

I don't know what the welfare rules are, but I would think that with baby number 12, then at least baby number 1 should be old enough to be working now, if not 1 & 2. So the welfare should be reduced on a sliding scale as soon as a kid turns 16.

 

[Nebulous]

I don't know what the welfare rules are, but I would think that with baby number 12, then at least baby number 1 should be old enough to be working now, if not 1 & 2.  So the welfare should be reduced on a sliding scale as soon as a kid turns 16.

Unless they had a few sets of twins and consecutive pregnancies.

 

[seasidemike]

We have the same problem in Ireland, system scroungers pumping out babies on social welfare. Social housing and believing the State should take care of them

 

[identityissues8]

We have the same problem in Ireland, system scroungers pumping out babies on social welfare. Social housing and believing the State should take care of them

You'll find that pretty much anywhere with a welfare system.

I used to live in a very low socio-economic area.
There were two streets, for the sake of what I'm about to tell you. One, that was mainly full of migrants and refugees (I lived in on this one. It was heavily Afghan populated, we also had a Mosque on our street directly opposite my house. So no fighting for a car park ever.) and another, that ran off the road next to the Mosque, full of people who were third, forth, fifth generation Australian - who knew the systems here, and were willing to exploit it.
You'd come home from work and they'd just be absolutely drunk, all standing in the front yards. I, and others, were always concerned about being harassed when we enter the Mosque's gates. But the amount of times that happened were very few.

But that's not all, I mean, I have even come across people more than happy to say they collect Centrelink with no intention of working - like it's a badge. Or that they work for cash money and claim welfare.