100,000 households in the uk...

[stokemaveric]

are on benefits worth £30,899 before tax,while most workers earn an average £23,422 [if you are lucky]...is it worth working in the uk anymore??...personally it makes my blood boil when idle bas**rds get more income that hard working folk.....

[keyplus90]

I think few people did not really understand what I was trying to say. Nothing to do with amount of tax, thick skinned and nothing wrong in accepting or claiming what your right is. I was actually trying to say that how these people manage to keep getting money. Because in my case I was told that I had to go to sign the declaration every two weeks and prove that I was looking for a job. How these people can avoid all that for years. I know disability is one thing. But I know a family (I know there are many more like these) where mother, father and five children (all grown up now and married) ranging from 22 years to 39 are on benefits and have council houses. Surely anyone in that age category can not be permanently disabled unless they have real problem. Why they are not checked every two week the way I was asked although I was not regular, and that was my point.

[ludwig]

They're just good at doing it keyplus - it's how they make a living after all.

[ummmm]

I believe in Japan if you're unemployed you are expected to sell all luxuries (TV's etc) before you're entitled to any unemployment benefits...

On the otherhand....In Japan people have been known to starve to death because of the shame of being unemployed and being too proud to claim.