Good rant! I was forewarned about the Bounty stuff when an LJ friend who'd had a home birth raged that she therefore hadn't got the child benefit form. I demanded it stiffly and combatatively in the hosp you betcha; I understand there is in fact a way to get the form otherwise but it's very easy to end up out of the loop and missing out - and you can't backdate your CB claim so it could end up costing you ££.