52% of the workforce get some kind of benefit 😮that’s because government allows low wages and it topped up by tax credits, while billionaires get away with paying minimum wage 🙄
That’s exactly it!! My grandfather bought up five kids and never needed my gran to work and now you not only need two wages but benefits on top and that’s just to keep afloat! The only difference is the upper classes just take more and more without giving anything back. The biggest failure of our times.
loads i used to be an aa in imigration and my manager would rather have things doe quickly than done right because goes out thats 1stat comes back because its wrong 1 stat
Talking to some Romanians because wages are terrible back home (£15 a day) most immigrants i've met are working more hours than almost anyone over here would because they can live like a king/queen back home with the money they earn.
It's not for the weather getting good benefits living accommodation never had it so good find there passports when they want to go back home for a visit
People are fed up with their workers' rights disappearing First it was zero-hour contracts Then it was external recruiters Then it was the 'self-employed' gig economy Then their retirement age was increased Why would anyone have any pride or incentive to work anymore
Everyone hates benefits until they become poorly themselves, many people who have benefits now have worked their backsides off for years, no sit down jobs for many, those that work hard graft have more chance of illness
The worry I have is that the safety net that used to exist is being whittled away and shamelessly abused. Rather than being there to support this who have genuine needs (long term disability for example) or to give people some protection during short-term periods of hardship, for too many it has become a lifestyle choice.
I agree some might abuse the system but many are genuine and these genuine people will have a hell of a time getting help in future because of this, not just the pretenders, I'm sure every one will appreciate it if ever they become ill, remember many of these people never imagined they would become too ill to work as many have worked their backsides off in the past, many have work related illness, many would love to go back to work but can't @@andyj8977
I have PIP I’m retired and worked all of my life up until I retired. I was crippled with arthritis and emphysema and could not walk very far. I have paid into the system all my life as have the rest of my family. I don’t feel guilty.
This was a concern of mine (abuse of the system is still an issue),however funding illegals to live in hotels is the priority, and they have failed miserably on this . Historically Labour would be worse. I will be protest voting (Reform) as I now have no confidence either of the major parties have any desire to tackle this in any meaningful way.
The priority should be making corporations pay correct amount of Taxes. The priority be not funding wars and killing of innocent women and children. We have money to fund wars and bombs but not for junior doctors and others. Pay rise in level with inflation. The priority should be a fair wage. If your working full time have enough money to pay all your expenses. Subsidising corporations so they don't have to pay a living wage so top up with benefits. Get your priority right. I'm not saying there isn't issue immigration. But it is a drop in the ocean compared to other stuff .
@@horumdean4367Government employees are already well paid when you include all the benefits (e.g. pensions) including junior doctors. We need tax cuts and a reduction in government (central and local) waste which is rife.
I totally agree and this is what prevents them going back into the work force and hearing this interview judging people with mental health issues does not help
Many who complain about ill people on benefits have never done a hard physical days work in their life, they have no chance of wearing themselves out, many people sitting on their backsides in high paid jobs all day, many supposedly working from home don't know what hard work is. How would you survive if you were ill and couldn't work? I don't mean pretend ill I mean genuinely ill?
did you know there is such a thing as psychological fatigue or burnout? and strangely enough it's real (i.e. it is possible for people to feel the same or more of distress/pain/suffering as they would if they were unwell with a physical illness!) crazy, I know...
That's what they want us to think 'it's all in your mind' the likes of the 'simon w's' of the world who think they can cure everything with CBT 'thinking happy thoughts' heard it all before, it's an insult and very damaging to people struggling with illness 'other than' mental health and I'm not knocking anyone with mental health as that's a horrible illness for anyone to suffer but there was a time when everything was put down to mental health, rather than admit those working their backsides off being paid peanuts actually do wear themselves out and do get ill health from the jobs they've worked in whether it's working with lots of Industrial strength chemicals or Asbestos, whatever it's real, many things do us damage and if you overuse anything it wears out eventually, hips, knees etc same as everything in life, those dishing the orders out don't over exert themselves in the workplace@@icantevenknowwhattosay
95.8% of the people are in work 😊 with AI coming in and businesses to close due to high energy bills , we better get used to millions being on benefits 🙄
ai will take jobs but will also create jobs ai cant reason they can 2 and 2 but cant say why i use chat gpt to help me with my youtube channel but it cant do everything
Whose going to pay if no one is working or paying taxes? Taxing the people who are making fortunes out of the low wage economy will never happen under Labour with Starver in charge or the tories because both parties rely on the oligarchs to fund them.
The real unemployment level is much higher than what they are telling you. If you are on a zero hour contract, you are not counted as unemployed, even if you have no work. Also if you are on minimum wage, and you have work for say only 6 days, you are not counted as unemployed for the remaining three weeks of the month. Don't let the Conservatives CON you into believing there is low unemployment.
You need to remember, many of these people have paid into the system for many years, it's there in case they ever need it, its meant for those that pay in not meant to be given away to new arrivals
There used to be a manufacturing company called Remploy that had factories all over the country who employed disabled WW2 war veterans from 1945, then it employed disabled people up to its closure in 2006 . Every single disabled person who worked there has never found a job since it closed down. That company had different divisions that did: Electrical Assembly. Cabinet making. Bookbinding. Textiles including a big contract providing the army with combat clothing. But not one employer gave them a job because of being disabled.
The UK - Great Britain - where Disability Discrimination comes out top!!! Bravo, what a great country we are!!! Aren't you just so proud of being British??
I used to deliver Remploy products. Chairs,desks,tables,cabinets. I remember that company made lovely things. It was a terrible shame funding ceased and closed the company.
Look over there, no over there. Ffs its called division. You journalists are ridiculous. We have thousands of migrants in this country. Keep your eye on them, please. You all have a very short attention span.
How do you separate genuine claimants from the rest? I have worked for most of my life, and now with arthritis and many falls, I can't even go to the shops.
@@davidking6617 who are you calling a racist? It’s not racist to put British population first. So you are happy with young men which most of them are coming into our country with no documentation of who they are, they could be terrorists, murderers, rapists, pedofiles, getting free housing, heating, food, clothing and spending money when we have British men, women boys and girls homeless, don’t you think we should put people who were born here first? I have worked with a lot a black, brown people and found them all to be good/nice people who haven’t asked for a hand out they have worked for money and not ponced off the state. Do you work or is the government paying you to sit on your arse?
@@davidking6617 who do you think your calling racist? I have worked with a lot of black/ brown people and alway had a good relationship with them. We have lots of British men, women, boys and girls homeless while ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS coming here given food, shelter, money, free gas and electric complaining they are not happy with it and want more. Don’t you think British born people should be put first? I have worked all my life and paid my taxes and I don’t get any hands out from the government. I bet you are one of the do Gooders who probably sit on your arse poncing off the government.
Why don’t these people scathing about job dodging, concentrate on all the migrants that get far more money and help than real people with disabilities? And as for work being the answer to help mental health? Rubbish, I can’t leave the house because of it! I wish I could AND I’ve never had help. 😡 stop demonising mental health, it’s disgusting.
If a couple are on benefits and going on holiday three times a year, they are defrauding the benefit's system. I am no longer able to work because, when I was working, I pushed my self too hard and now have chronic heart failure. I can't afford to go on holiday at all. Don’t let reality get in the way of your selfish assumptions. When you cut their benefits, you also cut mine.
the trouble is cutting benefits will always hurt those that deserve it most because of timidity and a lack of knowledge, whilst the sods that do not, will make sure that they are unaffected.
My thoughts - there are loads of different mental health diagnoses and each one has their own unique symptoms, please do not fall into the trap of thinking mental health is only about depression it is not and your judgements do not help with people being open about their own mental health diagnoses. Going for a jog may help some but not others for many reasons that are not taken into consideration. Judging people with mental health will not get them back to work, if you are focusing your attention on this group of people you are only making your life worse by believing others are better off than yourselves, concentrate on your own life and improve your own circumstances rather than others that you think are riding the system. Also the government wants you to focus on this in order to take away the attention away from the amount of money they are giving to immigrants that have arrived in our country and have not contributed to our system and this seems to be working for the government, because I don’t hear you talking or judging about how much money is being given to immigrants who have not paid into our system. Very judgmental interviewer and guests
@@deanevans5346 No they are not. The health professionals who do the assessments are not DWP staff, the decision makers who take the assessment report and award points are DWP staff.
All of my former neighbours where I was living before were youths with a criminal record. I heard them more than once being coached by the social "workers" (not that they actually did anything resembling any form of work) on how to keep pretending looking for a job to leech more on the system. They got rent and utilities paid, plus a few hundreds a month for groceries, mobile, cigarettes (?!) and more; no employable skills, no impulse control, two of them even no literacy at all... What would they expect it to get out of it?
One of the issues is that when people are forced to claim due to a chronic condition, they're not allowed to retrain in anything that they might be able to do.
@@eliakimjosephsophia4542, maybe, but the situation that I described above had exclusively able-bodied kids < 25yo who just could not bothered with working, no matter what: one of them was finally caught red handed again stealing bikes, another one was able to evade the police running on the roofs of three different buildings (after throwing a knife to a policeman, no less!) and the rest was still functional, when not piss-drunk or too high. All "good kids" according to their carers, uh...
In my day youngsters were introduced to work ethic at a young age. I had three part-time jobs at age 13, newspaper round before school, collecting for a football charity once a fortnight, and a saturday job. Saturday jobs for them to earn some pocket money in retail doesn't exist anymore. Few parents give their children chores to do for their pocket money. At age 15 I was working full-time, and with a saturday and evening job too. If youngsters don't get the opportunities to learn young, the older they get, their less inclined to engage with the big wide world. Plus mass migration has also demoralized many Brits and in some areas they're totally outnumbered. That impacts on their psyche in a detrimental way. @@GiacomoSorbi
As someone who has/still is dealing with mental health issues, on UC and working (granted it's part time) my two pieces of advice to help people in my situation is 1.) Please stop persisting with the regular interviews/appointments with Jobcentre as we are working but have difficult limitations. The constant stress of being scrutinised for our conditions doesn't help. 2.) Make talking therapies more readily available. Ideally in short time. Talking therapies helped me get out of a very dark place and honestly saved my life. I would recommend it to anyone with mental health problems like depression & anxiety.
The majority of people on benefits, don't want to be on benefits, however, the majority of millionaires/billionaires avoiding paying tax and sucking in tax payer funds plan for that and laugh all the way to the bank. Get real with this subject, people on benefits are not living the life of luxury, unlike the millionaires and billionaires swindling the tax payer, still waiting for the PPE! If the economy was better managed, fewer people would be suffering mental health issues. If the government did not starve the NHS, mental health services in particular, fewer people would need benefits because they would be receiving the appropriate treatment. I am fed up with journalists vilifying those on low income, who suffer the most when the economy is mis-managed in favour of those who take public money to line their already bulging pockets and spend it abraod. Yes, there will always be a minority who work the benefits system, but, comparatively speaking, they are less than a drop in the ocean in terms of how many millionaires and billionaires take tax payers money for they own ends
Well said tishmore. Completely correct the majority of people on benefits do not abuse the system. The people who do abuse the system are the millionaires.
@@aaronmason9332 Of course there are, but the majority of public funds being misappropriated are to those who think they are entitled, to spend small fortunes to avoid paying their fair share in tax and then, suck millions out of the public purse to buy yet another house, another car, another boat etc. Those who do work the benefits system are no better than these people, the difference being, one does it to gain millions, the other does it for a few quid
How many immigrants are on benefits compared to the indigenous population. Only 17% of Muslim men work and 2% of Muslim women, what percentage of the people on the benefits do Muslims represent. The benefits should only be for the indigenous people of this country, immigrants should not be entitled to any benefits until they have paid tax for at least 10 years
Well said. Sunak seems to conveniently forget the amount of money it takes to house and feed these Illegal immigrants who are happily sitting in hotels and new apartments at our expense. The hypocrisy of taking from the sick to facilitate those who have never paid into the system.
How about the £8million pound per day every day and rising, that this country is spending on immigration? Vote for change in 2024 the UK Reform party representing the people of Britain how also voted to leave Europe. Vote against the woke left wing this year the UK Reform party.
Well it would save a load of money if they weren't inviting half the planet here and giving them EVERYTHING at our expense, but leave our own on the street.
@@Coelacanth1 well it starts with the taxi service in the channel, followed up by free accommodation, food, clothes, phone, money, bike, transport, the list goes on. In Wales, they even made a video using young schoolgirls to inform them of what they can get in Wales.
Really? Shucks. What about immigrants who immigrated to uk 20 30 or 40 years ago? Brought up kids and have grandkids? Maybe even worked for nhs or other job. Not allowed benefits if fall on hard times? Wow
All refugees who are granted leave to remain should start working and off welfare within 5 years. All single mothers should start going to work at least part time after the child turn 3 years old. All housing benefits on social housing should stop after 3 years.
Cut the over bloated pensions of the retired parliamentarians. Even though they have a new position on hundreds of thousands a year, they still get their pension. WHY???
I get sick and tired of people moaning about people being on benefit and not working . I am 51 years old and unable too work due to Severe Mental Health issues caused by being abused as a child . I suffer from Severe Anxiety , Depression , OCD , PTSD , Flashbacks , Night Terrors and Nightmares . I get £624 a month on Disability Benefit . I wish i was healthy enough to work and would swap with someone else in a heartbeat to take on my illness and then work fulltime again . Im fed up with being classed as Lazy , Not wanting to work etc etc .
@@tartanmadmancryptolifestyl9696listen, I’m in a similar situation, but I’m British and not an illegal immigrant, I’d paid plenty into the system before I became ill, not my choice to give up work at all, people can judge all they want, but hopefully it never happens to them. 😢
I`m done with people like you saying all this bollax. I too was abused mentally and physically . I too have and suffered mental illness and still have the diagnosis. Yet I raised a family went thru the worst separation/divorce ETC . I too have tried suicide three attempts. But here I am still typing . GET real get on with it . That was in the past . I know that sounds horrid . BUT we can't change the past. WE can only change the future. I wish you all the best but benefits ??? are they your future?
Disability Benefit is quite a lot higher than Universal credit. Gone are the days when you could be on the dole, claiming for kids you don't have or a wife that left years ago, be fair nowadays people have to use food banks to survive and if you are late for an appointment they can stop your money for up to six months. You now have to prove that you are actively seeking work or you get sanctioned(new speak for money docked). Its rough out there if you don't have a job, and only a right wing Tory would claim otherwise. Thank god I'm not on that soul destroying treadmill any more, It ain't fun I can tell you.
Hope he means closing hotels being used by eco migrants at a great cost to the taxpayers Or Will it only affect British citizens who may have worked & fought for this country
I was a nurse and worked throughout covid became ill myself i used to slag of peaple on benefits unfortunately am on them myself after working 30 years as a nurse i have a completely different opinion about it now,but i do agree that there are peaple who are abusing the system specifically peaple who have never worked at all and contributed to the system they are the peaple they need to get at 👍
Never mind. We can afford £8 million a day to accommodate illegal immigrants! We need a Government that can apply Common Sense. Vote for the REFORM UK.
I was in Primark today for the first time in four years and was shocked to see only one cashier desk and all the rest were self service. The same in countless stores. How many jobs have disappeared because of this?
there is a huge difference between being disabled and unable to work and the vast majority being able to work but refusing to do so, they get away with it because the vetting by the social work is inept and amateurish. if you dont work you dont eat that might change perceptions
Millions of men swarming the country..... recieving benefits.... My friend lost her job through jealous malicious management, she receives £76 per week....she will get back on track..... that is not luxury and an incentive not to work....a complete struggle barely enough for food.
We would never want to see those who are really genuine hurt. But sadly almost all of us know those who are frauds who know how to work the system. But also the Government need to stop those who come here in rubber boats first.
As if *that* will restore workers' rights and force companies to close all overseas branches to hire local skilled workers... The problem began way before the mass immigration straw broke the camel's back.
To many people on benefits laughable headlines I think the present or lies about people complaining £6million pound of unclaimed benefits a year money swindled out of claimants illegal immigrants getting benefits is more like it who have never and will never pay in I
A veteran with no arms and his spine is damaged because bullets and he was told his fit for work some have terminal illness and told their fit for work but a certain group coming in this country get everything free
Benefits should only be given to people who have consistently paid into the system but have fallen on hard times are ill or disabled and unable to work. If there are job vacancies to be filled and someone on benefits is fit and able then the job should go to them and if they refuse to take it - zero benefits. It should NEVER be more monetarily advantageous to receive benefits than to work.
Look up Corporate Welfare And then consider the fact that the overwhelming majority of benefits go towards: Council Tax (Tax on Existence) Rent (Landlords are Rentseekers in an economic sense) And Utility Bills (In the age of automation and renewable energy, water & electricity are damn near free, and before urbanisation back when everybody had a plot of land, everybody had a well or spring they could get free clean water from) Also, benefits being better than work is not a benefits issue - it's a *workers' rights* issue
The government should make large corporations pay their workers proper wages so that the taxpayers don’t need to keep subsidising them! Most people on benefits have got a bl**dy job that’s not paying them enough money to live on!
Remploy was shut-down and none of their disabled workers were ever hired by anyone else because of disability. 130k disabled, elderly & infirm died by the 'work capability assement' - pensions have been severely cut too. Further, 'Universal Credit' & HMRC, is crossing so many barriers in terms of privacy & data protection concerns that it would be extremely difficult to 'fob off the system'. At some point people have to realise that it's 'big government' that is the problem, who give tonnes of money to civil servants, migrants (legal & illegal), foreign aid (particularly billions to India who have their own space program).
Fully agree i get disability benefits due to my mental heatlh which relates to an assault but im a Universtiy student, Im actively trying to work for a better future so im not reliant on the welfare state, but its important to recognise that these "sick" people cant jump right into work, they need the support from medical professions, lets get them healthy in other words, i do this by going to CBT therepy (conative behaviour therapy) every week, others need to do the same, so they can sort their issues out and get back to work.
Disability for mental health wtf exactly why this country and it's support system is going to end because of people like I'm a head case give me wtf physical disabilities only not made up ones ffs
Wishing you all the best & well done X Hope you get all the help you need X There was a time when they tried to treat EVERY illness with CBT instead of just people with mental health illness, it might work great for people with mental health but not for people that don't have it, it was pushed far too much with every illness, it'll never cure cancer, dementia & many many more illness's but I hope it works well for you X
not only is that disrespectful to people with mental health, but think of all the soldiers who have been diagnosed with mental health issues due to their experience with truma, you need to think about what you have just said because you have disrespecting our armed forces and normal people who suffer with mental health @rsvbiker4149
"The DWP says that doctors should..." ? The DWP has no say on health issues, they are not medical professionals. Best of luck seeing a medical professional
More BS from people who have no clue about what they are talking about. What about the, they who claim child benefits when they have millions in the bank.
How about actually helping people get a job rather than suffer the humiliation of trying to apply for a job with say over 100 applicants, but the only one that gets the job is from the woke, diversity brigade because the company is forced to comply with the lefty snowflake shite agenda. So lets say when you go to do your usual 2 weekly signing or whatever it is now the job centre goes we have you this job, Its yours,. Turn up so and so at such and such then it is the persons own fault if they don't go. If they don't then cut their benefits but if the employer goes your not the right for the job then fine the Job centre gets you another one until you get a place thats for you. Also NO benefits for any illegal whatsoever.
More and more people will be entering the mental health condition cohort from the younger generations due to family breakdown our factory farm education system, which for years has shoved children through a pointless academic curriculum which they are not suited to, but the schools are under pressure to tick boxes. Support workers for people with complex mental health issues appear to have no creative ideas, but again are pressured to tick boxes. When we begin seeing people as individuals with unique gifts and potential, the mental health of the population in this country may improve; but the ridiculous methods implemented in all of our services and institutions just shoves the problem down the road creating bigger problems in the long term.
The Govt. Should stop welfare benefits of asylum given migrants who never paid any UK taxes ever since given asylum in UK years ago. Also, why is Govt giving any benefit payments to thousands of boat migrants kept in 4 & 5 star hotels. They don't have to pay rents, for daily meals, no energy or water charges to pay, no landline or broadband or monthly direct debit bills to pay. So why give them any benefit payments at all? The Govt has placed too many people on welfare benefits by letting all big UK Businesses place all their UK Customer Service Depts abroad since 2010 Tory Ruling. Further hundreds of thousands of working class citizens sacked off their 15 to over 20 years of jobs due to and during corona lockdown Govt. Restrictions. Further hundreds of thousands sacked by supermarket chain stores all over UK as they could not pay 2022 placed Govt. minimum £10 per hour to till operator staff by keeping open from 8am till 10pm daily 6 days a week & from 10am to 4pm on Sundays. They placed self tilling by sacking 8 out of 10 till staff. Small businesses & High Street shops sacked staff as they can't afford to pay £10 per hour if opening from 9am to 6pm, 6 days a week. If Govt. throws away £8 million per day on giving VIP living in hotels to migrants from UK's tax incomes the Govt. will face shortage of tax. Use common sense to realise fact that thise who only ended as unemployed due to lockdown worked for decades & paid taxes as they did nit want to live on low benefits in poverty. In 2010 Tories threw thousands of citizens out of benefit claims. Such lot of homeless citizens would not be living & sleeping in cold & rain on streets if they could find jobs to go to.
More concerned and bothered by the billions of pounds gone missing due to ppe contracts under this tory government, pity your not up in arms about that instead of chasing the poorest and most vulnerable in this country.
Realistically there isn't enough workers actually contributing, when all the in work benefits are added up, a worker needs to be on a pretty high wage before putting money in the government purse through income tax.
You should talk about the actual problems that exist in politics and society!! This is just creating a new scapegoat instead of dealing with the real problems. More convenient.😎
I worked hard for 37 years in a high skilled job had to move firms a lot as they closed down one after another heart attack stopped that had to be a lollypop man to make money i loved it more to life than money or power it just helps i give to homeless now they are having a real hard time bet sunak is not the homeless seem to be mostly british
Immigrants and women in the work force have prevented wage increases and made everyone much worse off. Too much supply means the value tanks. So what used to be a reasonable exchange of work for financial reward is no longer. What do you expect? What incentive does a young man have now unless he can use currency exchange to send money home or it’s a woman that gets a buzz from some arbitrary social status associated with her job
I remember working for 12 quid a week,that was the early 90s and that was 10 hours a day,walk to work,no money for anything,they wonder why so many are dysfunctional, this society is dysfunctional,that's the answer,its like being abroad,it don't feel like my country anymore,I don't care about it 1 spit of syit,I've heard a guy from Zambia and a guy from Senegal tell me they are british lol,on my street,my neighbourhood,in accents and english I don't even understand,totally foreign to me
..we should close the door like 20 years ago and take control of our country instead of letting all these people come in and literally take the mick,the state on london in 2024,it literally is the most hostile place today in Europe,remember when london people were well spoke,inviting,happy people,london was such a nice place that Disney used it often as its location for movies,literally it could be a location for detroit,robocop 6 in hell,its pretty much the place that the majority of people there ran from recently because their government was corrupt,that was the excuse anyway,like when they said over 10 years ago that all them people illegally entering our country were doctors and lawyers and solicitors but really they were terrorists,rapists and scum that pretended they lost their passports, it got so bad that fully Bearded men could act like children and enter into a child's classroom and be taught sat next to our children,enough is far enough,it taking the pish now
About time to send them to work,Well,Sure a lot of them could easly do 16 hours a week,Something got to change,Just imagine every one on Benefits and not working,The World would be a different place,Every where be closed down,Every one be on Benefit's,I know many people who do no work,Sit in their flat all day long every day,Also be a shock to them as well if they went out to work A lot of them are not sick,Not sick enough to not work