BloodOmen
I am a FH squatter
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I'll deny it.
£50 a week dole, £100 a week housing benefit for a flat, £20 a week council tax benefit.
Versus
40 hours a week at £5.82 = £232 plus working tax credit.
No contest, work pays, even the lowest paying jobs pay better than basic benefits especially with tax credit topups.
Again, the problem with benefits is at the top end and not the bottom. The 1 million unemployed under 21's is much more to do with bad parenting than benefit levels.
You realise that most unemployed people are claiming multiple benefits right? easily topping £232 a week which is my point some people are getting upto £250-400 a week that claim for sickness/disability and all that jargen.
Only way the gov are going to get those people back into work is if they put their foot down and say right your getting fa get a job but they won't because it'd cost them votes and we all know they don't like losing those.