I'm sure he or she is, and I don't deny there are many abuses of the system. But I can't help feeling there are far more profitable and easier ways of getting money out of the system than having a child. I suspect, for example, that a goodly proportion are for children they either don't have at all or share parenting with an ex-partner, or similar tricks to claim multiple times for the same child. All very reprehensable and illegal, of course, but a far cry from this daily-mailesque picture of hundreds of people having children specially to exploit the system (and, yes, I do know about the housing rules and how having a child bumps you up the queue)