Katie Price and state benefits

Katie Price will be a higher rate tax payer and she employs people to help run her businesses . In the area I live there are many who see benefits as a way of life and have never paid any tax . They will claim anything and everything they can. The media interest in this story will highlight the plight of other children like Harvey.

Grans, You are lovely. I have a tendency to resent rich people, as I had a very difficult childhood being brought up by a disabled single mother in poverty, patronised by middle class teachers in the girls' grammar school I was fortunate enough to attend, and never accepted by the middle class pupils there. When I read of Katie Price's accepting state benefit for her son I was dead against her. But reading this thread has changed my mind. Katie appears to be a tiger mother for he son, and for this I salute her, and you sympathetic grans out there.

Why is Katie Price the one getting all the flack? Delight York is worth millions, where is his contribution?

Precisely anya.
The wefare bill for the taxpayer would be much lower if feckless fathers contributed to the costs of bringing up children they abandon.

Rose and Anya my point exactly. Why pick on the mother? Where is the overpaid footballer that fathered him? Not interested after getting the kudos of sleeping with Katie Price ( Jordan as she was then) I expect.

i saw celeb big brother when katie price, a glamour model page three girl ....said that the goverment pays for a taxi to take harvey her son to school,,,katie hopkins said ...why dont you take your son yourself,,, katie price said,,,,DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST ME,,,,,,,,a thousand pounds a week. katie hopkins said,,well you can afford it...whay are you taking goverment money when its in such a state,,,,,,,,,katie price didnt say too much after that, if i was megga rich like katie price i wouldnt even think of claiming peanuts from the goverment, even if i was entitled to it,. i would start a special needs school nearby if i needed it.....sorry i am on katie hopkins side,,,,and quite right,,,get hold of harveys farther..might i add, i was a single mum 2 children,,,i never asked anyone for anything, i didnt even apply for free school meals that i was entitled to,

dont send any hate mail i dont need it,,,,,,,,,,,,im just voicing my opinion,,,thanks,

I find you very judgemental angiebaby and obviously able to cope financially with your situation. Others are not so fortunate and I cannot critisise them for claiming what they are entitled to by current rules. In my childhood if my mother hadn't claimed free school meals for me I may not have had lunch those days. I do not often refer to my childhood but in this instance I "am coming out".

I am puzzled as to why anyone would deprive their children of a school meal to which they were entitled?

By the way, that is not 'hate mail' (why would you expect 'hate mail' for expressing an opinion?)

Just curiosity.