Benefit Hate

As a claimant when I read such comments or hear them I point out that forty percent of UC claimants are in work. We spend an estimated 80 billion a year on corporate welfare which dwarfs working age benefits. You are far more likely to be prosecuted for benefit fraud than for tax fraud. it is all a political ideology. 

As a claimant when I read such comments or hear them I point out that forty percent of UC claimants are in work. We spend an estimated 80 billion a year on corporate welfare which dwarfs working age benefits. You are far more likely to be prosecuted for benefit fraud than for tax fraud. it is all a political ideology. 

Yes, one of my pet peeves is people assuming that all UC claimants are unemployed 'layabouts'. I have lost count how many times I've pointed out to people that many UC claimants are in fact working.

Not all unemployed are 'layabouts' anyway. Many people are unemployed due to no fault of their own and would love to have a job.

If companies paid their lower paid employees a better wage they wouldn't need to be on universal credit, so it's actually a benefit for the company - for the employee it's just stopping them being homeless or hungry, which is a necessity, not a benefit.

I'd never heard of corporate welfare before. Just did a search and found a website called Corporate Welfare Watch, which reports on government support given to private companies. It's shocking.

Yes but the media stifles any talk about what corporate welfare gets so that can pick on the low person