Comment on Hunt warns of benefit cuts for people who won’t ‘actively look for work’
Mchugho@lemmy.world 11 months agoHere you go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52660591
Like I said before it really depends how many of the people claiming to be sick actually are unable to work. If you truly believe all of them it doesn’t look like many,but from experience I know there are plenty of people claiming sick who are able to work.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your link doesn’t say anything about millions of people abusing the system. Did you even read it yourself?
Mchugho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like I said, if you truly believe every single one of those people are actually so sick they are unable to hold down any kind of work there is literally nothing I can do or say to change your mind.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are always free to show me evidence that they aren’t!
Mchugho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The threshold for claiming disability/sickness benefits is very low in the UK. My dad has been claiming disability for over a decade now, but there are plenty of jobs he could’ve done in that time and I wouldn’t cnsider him disabled. He’s just been out of work so long that he’s become a social pariah. Once you’re out of work long enough they basically write you off and class you as being long term sick rather than a job seeker.
Compared to comparable countries the UK is very bad for this. The reason they keep it up is because it makes the government better if there are only 100,000 people who should be in work (According to Jeremy Hunt) rather than millions which is the true figure.
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