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Been great to have a couple of weeks away from most social media. New things to focus on for me and the OH. All positive.
Will still stop by on here if there's any significant benefits news but may continue to avoid the general chit-chat for now.
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The standard allowance in Universal Credit should be linked to the cost of the essentials that people need to survive. Enough for bills, enough for basic groceries etc. It should provide basic dignity to those in need.
That's not rocket science is it?
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@johnmcdonnellMP
They could dump a million pounds on everyone's doorstep and you'd still find a problem with it.
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@DaveAtherton20
There are so many factual errors within that random anecdote and then they *estimate* the amount the family receives to 2 different amounts.
Do you ever try to verify these stories?
Do you fact check anything they say? Has it crossed your mind these stories might be made up?
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@JeremyVineOn5
@jemmaforte
@LucyBeresford
@StormHuntley
I've got a great idea. Why doesn't someone invent some kind of meter device that measures how much you use? Could do the same with gas & electricity. Can't believe No-one has thought of this before(!) 🙄
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Disibility and illness can strike you at any time and it doesn't care whether you vote Tory, Labour, Lib Dem, SNP, Green, DUP, Plaid Cymru etc etc.
Anyone who agrees with a reduction of support for those that need it the most should be careful what they wish for.
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@PollardTom
The rhetoric they use always gives people the impression that 'taxpayers' and benefit claimants' are 2 completely different groups.
In reality isn't virtually everyone a taxpayer to some degree?
And don't over half the population receive some form of benefit?
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@LC300563
@MartinSLewis
The standard allowance of UC is only roughly the same as 8hrs/week at min wage. Its the bare minimum (sometimes less) to survive on. Just because your brother didn't need the extra, doesn't mean the other 5,999,999 don't either.
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@hann_mcg
Unfortunately the MR often doesn't change anything so you might have to go to the appeal stage later on.
If its any consolation my Mum got zero points at assessment but got over 20 after appeal.
Don't give up.
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@LBC
The people who think benefit claimants are 'living it up' have...
A) never claimed benefits
B) no idea what the rates are, how they're calculated or how to qualify for them.
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@Haigh12K
@Dawn117147265
So he packed in a £50k job presumably working 5 days a week.
And now his income is half that, still working 3 days a week AND committing fraud.
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I've always said the standard allowance of Universal Credit should be set at a level where people can afford the essentials... Nothing more, nothing less.
Now, thanks to
@jrf_uk
&
@TrussellTrust
we have a calculation as to what that amount should be.
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@CSmiles_News
@HMcGBobbyTerry
@SkyNews
😂🤣
The classic "look around you" reply.
It's right up there with "just open your eyes".
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It shouldn't have to be a battle just to maintain the real-terms value of benefits.
In fact it should be enshrined in law that they rise in line with the cost of the basic essentials people need to live.
🚨 NEW 🚨
61% of people support raising benefits by inflation, new polling conducted by
@YouGov
for JRF reveals.
By failing to commit to the uprating, as promised by
@RishiSunak
,
@trussliz
has shown herself to be firmly out of step with public opinion.
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Why do people post this rubbish?
Benefit rates are no secret and benefit calculators are free to use. Literally anyone can fact check these ridiculous claims.
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@kelvmackenzie
This is an utterly ridiculous statement and factually incorrect.
Over 90% of UC claimants are either in work, genuinely unable to work or just short-term unemployed.
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@sophielouisecc
What absolute rubbish!
The average UK salary is £38k. Anyone but the most extreme of cases wouldn't get anywhere near that.
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The only people who think benefit rates are too high are the people who:
A) Have never had to interact with the benefits system.
B) Don't even know what the benefit rates are.
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@MartinSLewis
I wonder how many people who pay for doorbell subscription services don't actually need the features the subscription provides.
Maybe you could do one of your polls on whether people have smart doorbells and whether they pay a sub or not.
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@LeeAndersonMP_
Lee... The claim in that article was factually incorrect and can be proven by anyone spending 5 minutes on a benefit calculator. Not only that but it compared 2 entirely different sets of household circumstances. There is no basis for your anti-benefit rhetoric.
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If you've had a change of circumstances such as leaving a job, make sure you report it on your Universal credit account immediately.
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@MartinSLewis
on last night's
@itvMLshow
:
"People on benefits are in work... or have disabilities... or are carers... or have ill health. The idea that everybody is a scrounger is factually wrong and out of order."
👏👏👏👏
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Best case scenario... A single unemployed adult (over 25) gets £334/month after housing costs.
In all likelihood it'll be even less due to deductions.
Why are there still people calling this a "lifestyle choice"?
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@JeremyVineOn5
@y_alibhai
@theblackfarmer
@theJeremyVine
All this debate makes it sound like there is no kind of assessment process to determine the level of help people need.
Anyone who has actually gone through the PIP process knows full well it's not just a case of tick a box and get £100's per month.
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@baratheongirl
@garygilligan
@mrjamesob
Benefit rates are no secret and benefit calculators are free to use so anyone can check... But they don't want to because then they'll realise their anti benefit rhetoric is false.
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@freddiesayers
Respectfully, it doesn't show the same story. 1st tweet you claimed claimants doubled and still rising. 2nd tweet shows smaller increase and decreasing. Your 2nd chart also doesn't show child tax credit or Housing benefit which Universal Credit also replace.
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I don't know about you... but I'm just fed up with all this Tory rhetoric about benefits.
When we look at the details, the figures, the analysis etc there's barely any substance to it.
Its weak electioneering, pure and simple.
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People who write this stuff don't realise that if unemployed people were given a pre-paid debit card to pay for the bare essentials then we'd actually be INCREASING the generosity of benefits.
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The benefit cap should be getting discussed just as much as the 2 child limit.
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For all those saying they'll be better off quitting their job and claiming benefits...
Please post a brief description of your job, the location and your boss's email address.
There's plenty of people out there who would want your job if you don't.
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Why do these questions even get asked?
If someone is deemed too sick to work then why would anyone think they shouldn't be entitled to some financial support?
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This is seriously concerning. Should an MP be voting on the 2 child limit if they don't know what it actually is?
*There is no two-child cap on Child Benefit*
Tonight, I voted to lift the two-child cap on Child Benefit, this has plunged countless children into poverty and disadvantages families.
Disappointing Labour did not support this crucial change. In Govt they need to deal with real issues.
#SupportFamilies
#EndTwoChildCap
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No! It's been proven not to work plenty of times.
Give people the basics they need so they can focus on finding a job instead of trying to find their next meal.
Should the UK cut benefits to get people back to work?
Experts have suggested this could encourage men in particular to find jobs, with over 9 million working-age adults out of work.
Is slashing benefits the solution?
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I'm not sure why the anti-benefit brigade don't want people to have a phone or Internet access.
They are by far the best tools anyone could have to job search.
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@JeremyVineOn5
@LucyBeresford
@Kevin_Maguire
@theJeremyVine
WOW!!! Didn't you know that many of the economically inactive (the 1/5th you mention) are students.... full time carers.... those not able to work through disability or illness etc
To mention these groups along side a 'work-shy' comment and an image of a lazy person is abhorrent.
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This is seriously getting out of control now.
Darren's tweet is probably the most offensive and uneducated post i've ever on the subject of economic inactivity.
To imply FT students, FT carers, Long-term disabled people etc are 'feckless and lazy' is absolutely disgusting.
Hundreds of thousands more of Britain's feckless and work-shy have decided that lounging about at home watching This Morning is preferable to actually getting off their arses and doing an honest day's labour.
According to the depressing figures, over 9 million people of
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There aren't 2.7million CLAIMING they're too ill to work.
That's the number who ARE too ill to work.
And to say they are 'holding back' economic growth is incredibly divisive language.
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@MartinSLewis
Households that aren't benefit capped continue to get a higher benefit entitlement the more children they have...
but the 'per child' amount decreases.
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Benefit fraud: £8.3billion per year
Unclaimed benefits: £19billion
Yet they say it's claimants that are the problem. 🤔
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UC claimants are either:
In work,
unable to work
or looking for work.
Most unemployed people get back to work within 6 months.
Its a myth that there is this huge cohort of people choosing to stay unemployed for years on end.
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@LadyBrienne1
@GrahamWhitham
What if you're in very decent well paid jobs, have 3 children (because you can comfortably afford to have them) and then become unemployed?
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The sheer amount of misreporting, clickbaiting and ougright lying about Universal Credit is getting really out of hand.
Is it acceptable to cause worry and anxiety amongst claimants just to a score a political point or just to get a few more clicks to your site?
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Uprate Universal Credit and all other benefits to at least match the cost of living.
Uprate the Local housing allowances to match rental prices.
Its not too much to ask is it?
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@simonharris_mbd
I'm a long term admirer of all the work you do but encouraging people to aid shoplifting is a big mistake for so many reasons.
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Whatever the Government do with the benefit uprating... If the Local Housing Allowances remain frozen, it'll be yet another significant blow to those that are already struggling with soaring rents.
The hidden housing tax. New analysis for
@CitizensAdvice
of the frozen Local Housing Allowance
Click the pic to read more 👇
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The standard allowance of Universal Credit should be linked to the actual cost of the basics people need. (See Essentials Guarantee).
If the cost of those go up by 10% then increase UC by 10%. If they go up by 1% then increase UC by 1%.
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Important to remember for the anti-benefits brigade that a benefits increase in line with inflation doesn't mean claimants have any more spending power than they did 12 months earlier.
#universalcredit
#autumnstatement2023
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It's always a neighbour, a relative or 'someone they know' that is better off on benefits.
Well first off all, no they're not.
And secondly... Its really creepy that people claim to know someone else's financial situation.
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"Cut the value of benefits so that life on benefits is less attractive" 🤣🤣
So apparently they think we should punish the vast majority of honest claimants because supposedly theres a bunch of people living it up on the dole.
Its laughable how out of touch some people are.
Another approach would be to cut the value of benefits so that life on benefits is less attractive.
Stress & anxiety could no longer be acceptable reasons to receive benefits except in extreme cases
Something needs to be done as the current benefits trajectory is unaffordable.
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For all those who have said they earn just a bit too much to get Universal Credit.... With a 6.7% rise to UC, it is now likely you might qualify for a payment plus other gateway benefits.
I'd thoroughly recommend re-checking entitlement once benefit calculators are updated.
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So let me get this clear...
They think the way to get people off sick/disabled benefits and back to work is to just stop the sickness benefits and presume they're all able to work?
BBC News - Welfare cuts worth billions planned by ministers
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I see tweets like this quite often.
Its an easy thing to say but what do people think will happen if you take away someone's ability to buy food or keep a roof over their head? Surely the consequences would cost more than just paying the benefits in the first place.
Should unemployment benefits be time limited for able bodied folk?
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The basic rate of benefits (the amount you'd get if unemployed) needs to be raised so that it's enough for the bare essentials. Then, if those costs rise, the benefit rate should rise accordingly.
Should benefits increase in the same way as pensions?
A cross-party group of MPs thinks people receiving Universal Credit should be guaranteed annual increases in the same way pensioners are.
Do you agree?
@Kevin_Maguire
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@linmeitalks
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@StormHuntley
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Claimants should not be having to use food banks just because there's a backlog in verifying children.
If they can't be verified in 5 weeks then the managed migration to UC needs to be paused.
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There are currently about 1million job vacancies and 1.4million unemployed people.
So why do people bang on about how the economically inactive should get back to work when there's not even enough jobs for all the unemployed.
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Errr... Why have they added that last sentence??
It's dangerous to imply that the 300k who have been unemployed for 12month+ refuse to take on work.
Yes there will be some that do. No-one can deny that. But many others face barriers due to age/disability etc.
To deliver growth we need to expand our workforce, and help to get those out of work back into work.
Our new Back to Work plan will tackle unemployment, strengthen sanctions, and reform the welfare system to make sure it incentivises work 👇
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@darrengrimes_
Do you realise you are calling the following 'feckless and 'workshy':
Students
Carers
Genuinely disabled people
Early retirees
Housewives/husbands
#communitynotes
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It should be compulsory that everyone has to put their details through a benefit calculator at least once a year.
That would silence most of anti-benefit brigade overnight.
@BlokeOnWheels
I would suggest anyone who thinks it's even adequate put in their details into one of the many 'What Are You Entitled To' websites and see how 'generous' it really is.
I did it and was entitled to £8.42 a week, minus £15.23 for council tax.
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It's now exactly a year since I started this account so I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has liked, replied to, retweeted, agreed with, disagreed with or just generally taken notice of anything I have said in the last 12 months!
At the time I had no idea...
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Benefit uprating should be written in law. The Government shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose which month's figures they want to use.
Could you imagine the uproar if they did that with the triple lock?
Hunt may use tomorrow's inflation print to uprate £100bn of working age benefits. Convention is to use Sept inflation. It was 6.7% then, forecast to be 4.7% now. Story with
@EllenAMilligan
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There seems to be a lot of people receiving their first UC statement with elements missing due to delays in verification.
If the DWP can't keep up, they really should slow down the managed migration.
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What an idiotic thing to say.
If there is a job vacancy nearby then you must do it? Last time I checked, employers choose who they employ. You can't just walk into a cafe or shop and say... "I'm working here now"!!
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I've seen a few posts this week where people have said they're not going to migrate to Universal Credit for mental health reasons.
It's very concerning that people feel that way about a system they're yet to interact with and feel their MH would be better despite being worse off.
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It's not a fact.
A single 40yo adult Living in council house with £500 rent:
Working FT @ NLW = £1420 Net + £87 UC
If instead they claimed Full PIP & LCWRA total income = £1359.
Note that to get LCWRA and full PIP you'd have to be assessed as very ill/disabled by the DWP.
@fathach_uasal
@GBNEWS
The fact is some people are way better off on benefits than working in a full time job on minimum wage, it needs to pay to work. So many people get way more than a standard universal credit payment. They are a lot of extras like LCWRA and pip payments.
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If you are one of these people who in the last few days has said "I'm going to stop working and go on benefits because I'd be better off"... Please drop your Twitter handle below so we can keep updated as to how your life is going for the next few months.
Many thanks.
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@MarcusRashford
We don't want a dependency of food vouchers being given out. We need to make sure people are given enough money either through work or benefits and then look at and tackle the issues if that doesn't happen.
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In the UK, the Government should be, as a bare minimum, guaranteeing that every citizen receives the basic essentials to get by. (Food, Utilities, accommodation etc.)
I really don't think that is up for debate.
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I see so many people making the "Why do I bother working, i'd be better off on benefits " comments... yet not a single one of them actually quits their job and finds themselves better off.
I wonder why? 🤔
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Number of people claiming out of work benefits has fallen sharply since easing of lockdown rules. Almost back to pre-2020 levels.
Don't let others tell you that there's some kind of laziness epidemic going on.
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Benefit claimants getting a £300 cost of living payment every 5 or 6 months aren't the people you need to worry about.
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Anyone who thinks a UC claimant working 16hrs per week is in some kind of magical sweet spot, probably shouldn't be commenting on benefits.
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Good benefits news for a change - Local Housing Allowance rates are increasing from April.
The un-freezing of the rates should come as a welcome relief for private renters who have a shortfall between their housing support and their actual rent.
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Withdrawing job seeking benefits after 4 months would be catastrophic for those over the age of 50 who are 4 times more likely to become long-term unemployed.
The cost of the resulting destitution and homelessness would be more than just paying the benefits.
Reform UK unveils their Manifesto.
Do you support the Reform Party?
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Too many people think you can just *choose* to quit work and get full PIP and LCWRA.
It couldn't be further from the truth!
@peterbentley34
@JackieD86388657
@whisperer_tree
I work and would be financially near equal on benefits.
I earn £26.5k and could sign off to get both Pip and lcwra to have £1.2k pcm with £80 pcm rent top up.
That shows roughly what you have to earn. My advantage is adding about 6% to pension from employer (I add 6% also)
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My 3 predictions for Autumn statement:
1. Benefits uprated 6.7%.
2. LHA unfrozen
3. Either a reduction in taper rate or small increase to Personal allowance.
I (optimistically) think they have been hinting at making worse decisions to make the above seem better than they are.
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The increase to housing support (LHA) isn't really a increase because it's just putting it back to what it should've been if it wasn't frozen in 2020.
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If you've never claimed benefits it's easy to assume those that do are scroungers, workshy, on the fiddle etc.
I'll admit I used to think a bit like that when I was younger.
But as soon as you personally interact with the benefits system, I guarantee your opinion will change.
Many replying "why no help for people who work, just those who do nothing". Actually 40%ish of those on Universal Credit are working - means tested benefits includes in-work benefits.
A decent chunk of the rest have illness, disabilities or are carers. Its not binary.
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Its astonishing how the Work & Pensions Secretary can be so factually incorrect in just a 23sec clip.
We're used to Ministers bending the truth but what he says are outright lies.
The work & pensions minister says the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is "thousands of pounds a month"
If you qualify for the higher weekly rate & get the mobility part you get £184.30 per week, which works out at £798.63/month. So you don't get thousands of pounds a month
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So 2 announcements from the government today.
1. Getting tough on unemployed - Already happens.
2. Mobiles banned in schools - Already happens.
Tommorows announcement to be that we have to drive on the left?
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Here we go again!
Why is it always rich people discussing how benefits are too generous? How about interviewing people who have at least a smidgen of knowledge of the benefit system?
'If you pay people not to work, then many of them will not work. And that's not good for the economy either, because if you cut benefits you'll see that there is economic growth'
Should Rishi Sunak cut benefits to fund taxes?
@NanaAkua1
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£11billion of Universal Credit fraud
£19billion of unclaimed benefits.
Both are unacceptable.
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Another person with superhuman abilities who can tell someone's work schedule and income source just from walking past them.
It's truly a gift!
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If you use the words 'Flat-screen TV' when talking about benefit claimants, that shows how out of date your views are.
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How many more times....
You can't MAKE someone 'fill a job role'.
Its not up to the unemployed person whether they do the job or not. It's the employer's decision to employ them.
"Why do we have 1.2m on the dole... can't we use some of them [for fruit picking]? They should be made to pick."
Ann Widdecombe says people on benefits should be made to fill agricultural jobs.
Do you agree?
@JemmaForte
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@theJeremyVine
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"Listen very carefully... I shall say this only once."
The rules regarding UK benefits and work searching are the same no matter what your religion or skin colour is.
That's it. That's the tweet.
WHY ARE NO SANCTIONS ENFORCED?
70% of Muslim women in the UK do not - will not - work as they say it is against Islam. Why are they not sanctioned as the rules state?
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Every day that ticks by, the gap between private rental prices and the Local Housing Allowance grows ever wider.
There is no justification for the continued freeze of the LHAs and the longer it goes on, the bigger the problem becomes.
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I do think some people need to understand that Universal Credit is not going to pay their mortgage for them.
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@jonathanwatts
Given that it's only at 64degrees South latitude it's not actually that surprising. Reykjavik is it a similar (northern) latitude and also sees temperatures at least in the high teens during summer.
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If work search requirements are increasing and 100,000's more people are becoming subject to them, there must either be a large recruitment drive for more work coaches or there is currently a lot of space on the work coaches diaries.
Either of those seems unlikely to me.
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@MrHarryCole
That 5 million includes people unable to work. The actual unemployment number is far lower. (1.5m-ish).
60% of those will find work within 6 month. 75% within a year.
The remainder = 0.5% of the UK population.
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