Anyone who thinks our benefit system is too generous, has clearly had their common sense surgically extracted by the Daily Mail.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
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Forcing the sick to work won't lower the bill. Investing in people's wellbeing and removing corp. greed would.
https://ifs.org.uk/articles/benefits-spending-five-charts-uks-ps100bn-bill
#BackToBasics
Benefits, Just stop you from starving while your whole life falls apart
Today we have 2 different parties: the Democrats are still Republicans, but the Republicans are now fascists.
i went from be able to get £28k redundency to state money which was £1800.
they were given millions of £ from the uk government to keep jobs.
but the uk government did not know at that time it was not being spent on uk jobs.
the polish government invested millions into the company ... which again was being run using their trick.
they moved the entire operation (except the uk HQ) to china.
that was when they were caught.
needless to say to little to late.
they were taken to court after papers showed a company that has no buildings or even employee's made £6 million after tax profit
they made over £150mil tax free from government subsdies and all they got was a £550k fine.
now i'm on disability and struggling to live let alone pay bills, the demeaning "medicals" where someone who is no-where a "medical professional" dictates if you get DLA or not
What do you think happens, when you make job loss a financial catastrophe? Whose hand do you think is strengthened, in employment relations?
Starmer/Mail on Sunday: “bulging benefits bill is a blight on Britain”
Me: “bloviating barrister bends over for bad bosses and billionaire barons, brushes over how Britain is bottom of benefits league, and how Byzantine bureaucratic hurdles break people”
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-five-richest-men-double-their-money-as-poorest-get-poorer
"There is consensus that the Daily Mail (including its online version, MailOnline) is generally unreliable, and its use as a reference is generally prohibited"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#Daily_Mail
Have you thought of selling your house?
Interestingly, perhaps, the ‘science’ of eugenics - which the Nazis used extensively - was developed by an English academic in the early 20th century.
Eugenics was eagerly promoted by U.S. Republicans before the Nazis
What are the FACTS behind the simplistic headline intended to mislead the gullible?
A direct quote
As I've said before (pre budget), I'll wait to hear the govts proposals- and then form an opinion.
I'm a benefit claimant.
To simply label youth as “unwilling” and beat them with a stick will backfire horribly.