My mother got child benefit for me, and I am in my mid-40s.

I'm losing two lots of child benefit and according to the BBC calculator will be about £640 a year worse off. If that £640 goes to helping people who are struggling, I don't mind.

What makes me laugh is that the cut in child benefit was brought in because (and the govt actually said this) it would be cheap to administer, maximising the gain to the national purse. But because there were built-in flaws, they have had to introduce it on a sliding scale and recover it through self-assessment. So it is going to cost much more to implement than they thought. Whatever you think of the rights and wrongs of child benefit for higher earners, it is a bit of a shambles for the government.