[verall]

Nothing sounds wrong to me in any of the cases you mentioned?

> £400/month help with her bills because she struggles with time management? I'm sympathetic to her problems but that is a shit ton of money!

£4800/yr is a shit ton of money? Things must be pretty rough over there!

> Child benefit also goes to lots of people (myself included) who totally don't need it.

Is that a bad thing?

[iamstupidsimple]

> £4800/yr is a shit ton of money? Things must be pretty rough over there!

For the average person in the UK, it definitely is.

[IshKebab]

> £4800/yr is a shit ton of money

It's a shit ton of money for the government to just pay to people. I wasn't saying it's enough money to live on or anything. Obviously.

> Is that a bad thing?

The government is just a little short on money and they're wasting it by giving WFA and child benefit to people who definitely don't need it.

This should be obvious.

[const_cast]

> for the government to just pay to people

Right, but they're not, because this isn't what's happening. There's a reason they're paying her. Otherwise you would be getting the money too, but you're not.