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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I think the problem is that there ARE scroungers and claimants who are not entitled to claim but do and there are people who do not claim all they should. If we could stop the people claiming who shouldn't then there would be more available for those who are entitled to it.
It's not the genuine sick and disabled who are a problem. It's the people who are claiming incapacity benefit and doing cash in hand jobs that cause the problem and then to make matters worse people assume that others who are genuinely disabled are probably pulling a fast one too.
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Willow we all know there are scroungers, and yes, if we could erradicate them from the system more would become available for the genuine claimants, but the genuine claimants aren't asking for more, as little as it is they can actually survive on the money they get, (which is alot better than days gone by with workhouses etc).
However you bring up the subject, people claiming and working cash in hand, I wonder whose fault is that?
If someone on benefits gets caught working in that fashion their money is stopped, what happens to the guy that employed them and perhaps several more?
If he wasn't there to tempt people on the dole to work, 'cash in hand', then they perhaps would sooner find a job.
I would love to hear of a government, any government Labour or Conservative, clamping down on the illegal employer rather than the struggling unemployed, of course an extra few pounds is tempting but if caught who gets penalised?