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When it comes to welfare reform, who needs more than 26,000 pounds a year in benefits?

Is there a risk to vulnerable families if benefits are capped? Plus Kaye asks if you should discipline other people's children. How would you react if a friend disciplined yours?

When it comes to welfare reform - does anyone need more than £26,000 a year to live on?

The welfare reform bill is set to meet objections as it passes through the House of Lords today, with former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown, amongst others, set to vote against it.

Kaye asks if it's right to introduce the propsed cap of £26,000 a year for benefits, or if there's a real risk that some families will suffer as a result. Does any family really need more than that to get by? And do these proposals go some way to redress the balance between families on benefits and working families who don't bring in more?

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Should you discipline other peoples kids?

A story on Coronation St in which one character smacks the adopted daughter of his girlfriend.

Coronation St are currently running a story in which one character has smacked the daughter of his girlfriend. Now this is an extreme case. But leaving the smacking aside. Should you be disciplining other people's children? If you have a friend of your child over to play and you catch them misbehaving, what do you do? Tell them off? Raise your voice? Or do you just turn a blind eye, don't want to offend their parents and after all they will be away home in a matter of hours. What about if the tables are turned. You find out that your child has had a bollocking for misbehaving at a friends house. Are you ok with that?

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