U.K. - is it true that single moms are supported by social services until each child is 14?

Anyone in Great Britain confirm this? I read on the Observer website that single mothers in Great Britain got 14 years of welfare support, and didn't need to work.


Is that true? Are food subsidies (food stamps) and subsidized housing included?


thanks if you know.....U.K. - is it true that single moms are supported by social services until each child is 14?
All mothers in the UK are supported by social services, there's socialized health care and there's also Family Allowance. See the link below.





The UK is a much more people oriented society than the US, there is a general belief that the most important thing a government can do is look after its people. The labor party hasn't been doing so well supporting the system in the last ten years or so but it's still a country where a pregnant woman gets entirely free health care. It's so much cheaper to have healthy children than to care for handicapped kids who would have been perfect if their mothers had been given twenty pounds worth of advice and ten pounds worth of vitamins and folic acid.U.K. - is it true that single moms are supported by social services until each child is 14?
My information is purely observational, but hear me: I've lived in England for a few years, and my impression is that any British teenager with a child is entitled to an apartment and some sort of weekly allowance. You'd need to be a citizen and go through the system, but it is certainly happening. As to why, I couldn't say; Britain needs children is my guess. Subsidized housing is definitely part of it, and food is dealt with via an allowance.


Keep one thing in mind though: Nice as this may sound, the so-called Council Estates are a place you aren't safe in. I've had to live close enough to them to tell the tale... crime is rampant there.
Sadly, for the most part it is true. This labour government has created a disgraceful society in this country whereby a great deal of youngsters care only for themselves and drop out bastards by the dozen just so that they can get a life on welfare...practically everything given to them and it's the decent, hardworking taxpayer who foots the bill. Don't for a moment though think that you will be eligible to come here and live like that...things are changing...maybe the worm has turned...and it's going to be much harder to get housing anyway as it's all being given to asylum seekers/refugees and immigrants from the EU....and that is happening whilst decent UK citizens are forced to live in shelters and on the streets because of the above facts...





Re another answer regarding the crime on council estates...it's the above type of people who are making these areas such as they are today!