Richlist Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 1 in 5 working age adults are economically inactive ie. not working.....that's 9 million people + another 1 million are unemployed. We have 900,000 job vacancies in the UK......what's going on ! Where the hell are they all living ? How do they pay their rent ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bil8999 Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, Richlist said: 1 in 5 working age adults are economically inactive ie. not working.....that's 9 million people + another 1 million are unemployed. We have 900,000 job vacancies in the UK......what's going on ! Where the hell are they all living ? How do they pay their rent ? They don't, we pay it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melboy Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 My Sister in Law is a senior manager in the local DWP and she would tell you in a private conversation that the benefit system of social payments is so high now that for a lot of people and families it doesn't pay to work and pay taxes etc. Not only that the Black Market of working for cash in hand is now the choice for may people receiving social payments. You have all read in the national press about benefit fraud and the people who commit this and in some cases the amounts are staggering and the punishment fairly light if caught out. Meanwhile the working population pay for this through taxes and NI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grampa Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 Made too easy to get benefits without enough follow-up interviews. Doctors too readerly sign people off with bad backs and mental health issues. I remember 25 years ago interviewing 40/50 year old guy for a job who straight up said he didn't want the job but only came to the interview to be able to keep receiving his benefits and he could tell the job centre he had been for an interview. The odd thing was his young son was already working for this company and was a cracking good hard worker. Personally I think anyone out of work receiving benefits is not actively searching for work 40 hours per week so should be required to do 15-20 hours work pw for their community such as litter picking to continue to receive their benefits and also cut back on the on-line applications for benefits and go back to more face to face regular interviews at the benefit office. A few more single mum hostels with communal kitchens opposed to giving out nice one bed flats to every work shy female who just chooses to bash out a kid to get a nice flat then later knock out another one to upgrade to a bigger property. But maybe I'm being to harsh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richlist Posted March 17 Author Report Share Posted March 17 Maybe I'm just guilty of being nieve but I'm still suffering from shock at the news.......it will likely take me some time to get over it. Of course I knew that the numbers were high, but nowhere in my wildest dreams did I expect it to be 9 million (16-64 year olds). That 9 million presumably will include the following......mature students, early retirees, prisoners (80,000), drug takers (0.5 million), long term sick (2.5 million), mums/homemakers, Prince Andrew and the idle rich etc. I used to consider myself one of the 9 million because I was fortunate to retire at 53 but now I much prefer to call myself a member of the idle rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanrent Posted March 18 Report Share Posted March 18 23 hours ago, Melboy said: My Sister in Law is a senior manager in the local DWP and she would tell you in a private conversation that the benefit system of social payments is so high now that for a lot of people and families it doesn't pay to work and pay taxes etc. Not only that the Black Market of working for cash in hand is now the choice for may people receiving social payments. You have all read in the national press about benefit fraud and the people who commit this and in some cases the amounts are staggering and the punishment fairly light if caught out. Meanwhile the working population pay for this through taxes and NI. It's hardly surprising the powers to be are trying force in digital currency if easy to track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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