article_snippet.sent: A placement in local authority care costs an average of £150,000 a year.
article_snippet.sent: If they each spent just a year in care, the bill would be £2.4million.
article_snippet.sent: CHILD BENEFIT: £1,000 per annum for the eldest child, plus £700 per year for each additional child, which would be claimed by the person looking after the eldest child.
article_snippet.sent: Assuming half the person looking after the child children are now adults and half are still entitled to child benefit, the bill would be at least £500,000.
article_snippet.sent: Child tax credits would have been worth an average of £2,000 per year, per child if the parents were not working.
article_snippet.sent: If his children had completed just one year in care each, they had completed just one year in care each would leave the taxpayer with a bill for £2.4million.
article_snippet.sent: ’s mothers would also have been able to claim at least £500,000 in child benefit and a further £800,000 in child tax credits.