kcrussell25:
TiredAndEmotional:
kcrussell25:
Or you could view it as Dickensian employers taking advantage of the benefits system to pay their poor downtrodden employees a non-living wage knowing the state will top up with benefits where applicable. Even the Tories have started to wonder whether the state should continue to subsidise cheapskate employers.Maybe. However would cost of living have got so high without the benefit system? A lot of areas housing benefit pushed the cost of rent beyond the earnings of a working person.
I certainly won’t claim company’s are innocent but when people are turning down work as they are better off on benefits something is very wrong with the system
A good example again of the system actually benefiting the private landlords, not the tenants. And you have been misled regarding people turning down work to stay on benefits. That may apply to a minority but the vast majority of people in receipt of benefits are in employment, working for such crap rates that they find themselves in the position of having to claim benefits to get by.