Well I’d have to go with ‘deduction’ on this one. Let’s see what we got here...
1. UK’s a hard core welfare state.
2. They got 13 kids, 14th on the way.
3. It’s a single income family.
4. Main breadwinner in the family is a trucker.
5. In US, a *far* cheaper and more affordable place to live, having 13 kids, 14th on the way, and existing on 50k annual salary of a truck driver would be VERY difficult without some kind of state support. Unless they all eat spagetti and beans every day.
In UK - impossible. Well let’s just say that the odds are some type of government ‘program’ is involved in keeping everyone fed and clothed here.
“In UK - impossible. Well let’s just say that the odds are some type of government ‘program’ is involved in keeping everyone fed and clothed here.”
well..you are talking about more socialism in UK.
So they get “free” health care (even though it’s paid for with high taxes)
I’m not sure if they have the same method we have of giving tax credits based on number of children?
I doubt they get government money for clothes.
I don’t know if a salary of $50,000 with such a large family might qualify them for assistance with food?
Some years ago I was on a flight to Germany, and a german midwife was sitting next to me.
She noticed I was pregnant and asked me “how much does your government pay you after the birth?”
I didn’t understand what she was getting at.
Turns out - at the time - in Germany you got a gift from the government of $500 whenever you had a baby, plus a daytime nurse for the first 2 wks. compliments of the government as well.
I don’t know if the UK has something similar or not.