Private Eye – Number Crunching

[Hymie]

6 – minimum number of weeks a new Universal Credit claimant must wait for first payment, leading to rent arrears, exorbitantly-priced debt and trips to food banks.

1 – maximum number of weeks before a new MP is met by a ‘dedicated independent parliamentary standards authority election contact’, provided with a salary advance and shown how to claim housing costs in advance.

[cassa333]

There are vastly less (or should that be fewer?)
MPs than their are benefit claimants. Therefore the fact it only takes six weeks to get benefits is actually a testament to the efficiency of the system not the inherent unfairness of one minuscule (by comparison) group against a vastly bigger group.