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.....

[Gromit]

http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml

The Daily Mail article is jumble with another story at the begin, I assume that will get fixed.

[Gromit]

Looks like you have to have a dozen brats to get that amount. As the population is ageing, we need these baby factories to breed the future workers to pay our pensions.

[jno]

yes, and if not enough locals can be bothered doing the job (because children interfere with their lifestyle) then we'll have to import them from the more family-oriented countries of the east and middle east.

[stokemaveric]

it makes me so angry that people go to work and yet these parasites get eveything on a plate...

[Canary42]

Don't worry, our cobbled-together Government will soon cut those benefits - unfortunately they will also significantly cut the numbers of hard working folk.

[naomi24]

Stoke, it makes me angry too.

Gromit, but if these babies follow in their parents' footsteps, they'll live on benefits too, so how will that work? It isn't smart to make light of the scroungers, nor to excuse them. To do so is an insult to the people who do work and contribute to society. There's plenty of work in the community that the idle could do in exchange for their benefits. Clock them in and out 5 days a week - and no work, no pay!

[Coobeastie]

I agree it would be better if the benefits were supplemental to community work

[eyethenkyew]

Your headline caught me eye, the reason being that I read the other day that the exact same amount of 16-24 year olds are allegedly on incapacity benefit. Seems a bit coincidental that the same amount of households are on benefits as well?

Just a thought.

[keyplus90]

I can’t understand one thing that how these people can keep going. When I lost my job after 11 years as audit manager last year. I went to job centre and the kind of questions they asked me and the way they treated me as I was a beggar and kind of conditions and requirements I was given. The way I was told that I had to find a job (of my choice) within 6 weeks otherwise I must be willing to whatever sort of job with whatever kind of salary they would offer me. Simply I thought it was too much for £75.00 per week and ended up saying to the woman that I had paid yearly tax equivalent to her whole year’s salary and was not doing that out of choice.

So I decided to walk away and did not claim any benefit. Perhaps these people are real thick skin breed.

[oldexpat]

lets say you had a job on £6/hour. thats £240 per week. - rent -tax- council tax - £10 for doctor or dentist and you are left with £80.

You get £60 on the dole per week so why work 38 hours for an extra £20 pounds? Its like working for £1 per hour.

[naomi24]

oldexpat, sorry I'm not with you. Are you saying that's a good enough reason not to work?

Keyplus, I agree with you. These people are thick skinned - and the rest of us are thick for letting them get away with it.

[ludwig]

// Perhaps these people are real thick skin breed. //

I think they are. There doesn't seem to be much sense of shame there. They've made the decision to live off the state, so they do what they have to do to make it work.
Hopefully living off other people's taxes isn't going to be available as a lifestyle choice for much longer.

[oldexpat]

What I am saying is if you get £20 extra than dole money for working per week then what is the point of working?

I paid similar amounts of tax to key plus sometimes. It doesnt make me angry. If it makes you angry then leave the country. No point winging. But I will tell you this. If I am out of work I will 100% get any penny I can off the government.

[acoupleleft]

oldexpat if you have worked you will find it very hard to claim anything that is why these people have large families. If you have kids you will be looked after.

[oldexpat]

Are you saying that if I was out of work I couldn't claim anything? Even though in the last 5 years I have paid just short of 100k of taxes?

[naomi24]

Changing the system is the answer - not leaving the country. If everyone who pays into the system thought like that, there would be nothing for you to claim.

[oldexpat]

It will never change though. Have you not heard of human rights? If the chav's don't get the flat screens they will be up in arms :)

[acoupleleft]

oldexpat hope you never lose your job you will be in for a very big shock.

[naomi24]

I know what you're saying, but as far as I'm aware 'Human Rights' does not include possession of a flat screen. It's time we made these people get off their lazy backsides and work for a living - and, like Ludwig, I hope it won't be long before we see it happening.