i'll assume gWaPito your not claiming child benefit for your little ones, after all your thinking about the hard pressed taxpayer , now if you are then your using your legal right to claim it (for now anyway - til next year ) just like everyone else

your spouse doesn't have a right to 'recourse to public funds' until she has at least ILR, so what difference will this minimum income make then ? .. if you've a problem with the British partner claiming any sort of benefit then if they are eligible then its their legal right to, no matter who they are wed to, just as a EU citizen can claim.

you remember Tony on here ? how he struggled to get his wife here, i wonder if he's claiming benefits now from the hard pressed taxpayer ? did you wish him luck gWaPito

i dont give a if any British Citizen claims what ever, they should have a legal right to bring their partner here, the problem with me is those from the EU have more rights than British people, now thats what the hard pressed taxpayer should have a problem with...

and Osborne said "that those with the "broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden" rightly so