Do you know anyone that receives child support money that actually spends it on the child?

Sounds like you just know the wrong people. There are a lot of people who abuse it, but there are just as many who don't. Also, if a parent pays for bills and food then they aren't abusing child support, child support isn't for the kid necessarily, it's for the added expense the child adds for the parent taking care of them. Such as electricity, transportation, an extra room in their house and so on.

I use it for my kids needs. Food, housing, clothes. Their basic needs.

I suppose there are some that do. I don't know of anyone. BTW, it would be easier to read your question if you broke it up in to paragraphs.

100% of my children's child benefit goes into a trust fund every month along with the £250 each they got at birth. I have never spent any of it.

no not everyone uses the money on them selves but realize buying food, paying rent, buying clothing for the children, taking the children out to an amusement park that is using the money on the child! and unemployment, you seem to think is all government funding is wrong! pay more attention you get unemployment from paying into unemployment your whole adult life! and the only way you get unemployment benefits is if you were wrongly fired or laid off, and if they are collecting their unemployment because they worked and got fired why do you care????????? someday you may need to collect unemployment and maybe it will change your thought

My mom is the same way. Although she's already wealthy and does buy me stuff when I need her to she tends to always go on mini shopping sprees whenever she gets the child support check. She doesn't even pay for any of my medical bills or anything. My dad pays for all of my medical bills,dentistry bills and whatever else I wind up needing that costs a large amount of money. Just last week she got child support funds and as soon as she got it she went to the mall and came home with a new Gucci bag. Yesterday I asked to get a new bottle of nail polish and she was like "When you get a job and move out you can buy it with your own money!" I know a lot of my friends complain about the same thing so like you I don't know any parents who actually spend the child support on their children.

if your living in that house and you have water, food, electricity etc... than that 200 dollars a month she might be getting for child support is going to you, her child. I have lived on my own, and now i have a husband and two children, and when I got a bigger place, my rent went up, my water went up my electricity and gas went up and my food bill went up, luckily my husband and i are together and dont have to worry about child support. but if we were seperated and he had to pay me a couple hundred dollars a month that would barely cover the basic added needs of a home with children. I dont give my children 300 dollars a month to go buy toys with now, i spend it on there basic needs, just as i would then. Or i could give them three hundred dollars a month from there dad, 300 from me and tell them" theres your money, figure it out" and I would move back into a more economical house that doesnt cost as much.

This is why child support should go into trust funds. http://childsupportrights.org/TrustFund

Is the kid clothed and fed? Do they have a room? Heat? Electricity? Health care? Do they get driven places? That's child support. However, I agree with you that there are those who get all sorts of government funding and don't tell the state that they are also receiving child support. If you are old enough to be commenting on this forum, you certainly are old enough to tell the judge you want to live with your dad. That's all my husband's kids had to do to live with their dad (they are adults now). Your mom likely has threatened your dad regarding this situation given that she would lose some of freebees if you left. I am actually disgusted with how the WIC program is currently run. Infant formula should be removed from the program and placed where it belongs - on food stamps. That's a soapbox that you don't need to hear about. Every state has a number where you can report abuse of government programs. If you know all of these things, google the number for your state and provide the information. These programs don't have enough personnel to find cheaters and rely on the public to report them. Then, they can act. I have several relatives who benefit from government programs including myself (disability). Until I married recently, I was eligible for Medicaid, foods stamps and a bunch of other things, but Social Security plus Medicare was enough for me, so I never applied. I figured this gives the programs more money to help those who can't help themselves and there certainly a lot of people who have worse situations.