"Too Many People On Benefits" | Cuts In Welfare System 

Benefits should be payable to citizens born in British. No one else.

Funny how they worry about Benefits when they dish Billions out each year for Rubber Boat Brigade

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 🙄

Cut off the money to imports, cut off money to imports that won’t work. Put Brits first. 🇬🇧

How many Islamic immigrants legal and illegal are milking the system that's the real issue

Why do you think the immigrants are coming to the UK?

Try the amount of immigrants coming in .

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

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.

Im on disability benefits and i wouldn love to work again bu there way to much Discrimination against peope with actual mental health issue .

Start with the immigrants

To many none indigenous people on Benefits

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.

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?

Biggest elephant in smallest room start with the colossal cost of illegals.

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 🙄

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.

At least 90 percent of benefits here are foreigners......

too many illegal islamist on benefits!!!

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.

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.

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.

As usual slap down the less well off to benefit the better off. Petrie has just pissed me right off.

The pip assessment staff get payment of 80 for every claim refused

1200 Mosques in Britain. Wonder how many churches they have in any of the 53 Muslim countries 🤔

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?

Stop all immigration benefits, no housing, no nhs just enough petrol to power the boat back to France . Only one family benefit no more 6 wife family.

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.

Same thing comes out every time the torys are in trouble they pick on the poorest in society 😢

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

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

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.

Cut asylum and save money

Sounds like a great idea. Problem is most on benefits already don't have enough to cover the rent or feed themselves reasonably every month.

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

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???

He’s importing hundreds of thousands of homeless foreign young men and giving them homes and benefits

What about cutting the cost of the tens of thousands of illegals that is costing us a fortune in board and lodging.

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.

Benefits should only be paid out to people who have paid in.....fuck the rest...look after your own

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.

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.

Will it be whites only for the cuts?

8 million a day on boat people , free hoets free meals free phones free cycles free everythings send the lot back whwere they come free, solved ???

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.

I agree with some people and have said it myself. The only people who should be allowed to be on benefits are people born in the UK.

Yes .... And, thousands and thousands of them are fully fit and able to March in London every Saturday 😎

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?

We are bothered but immigration is in fucking crisis so we are talking about that

Shocking why are they not talking about immigration

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

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 👍

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

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 .

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

Social anxiety is the worst. You can't work because you don't like being around people.🤦‍♂️ Ridiculous.

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).

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.

Welfare needs to be cut from the off oil crazies who are stopping other people getting to work.

My work at the Home Office caused my mental health issues as it did to many others if you spoke out about abuse and corruption.

Wait till Starmer comes in , that's when people will realise how muck damage benefits scroungers can cause

Yes, too many people on benefits and our so called 'government keeps letting them into the country at great expense to all UK taxpayers.

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!

Didn't Sunak pledge he would stop the boats? He hasn't done that so how can he pledge to cut welfare?

Got thousands of people registered as sick due to alcohol and drugs, there should be proper rehabilitation lasting as long as needed.

So putting more pressure on the most vulnerable people to make the rich RICHER basically. Very Rishi thing to do 💩

look at the poor and ignore the rich who get far more benefits in kind they don't want you to know about.

Never mind personal welfare Talk about corporate welfare & UK businesses opening overseas branches

Because employers don't actively discriminate against many of the people who want to work but can't get work. Get real.

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.

When you are better off on benefits rather than working why should people work. Wages are too low and benefits too high.

"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

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

The people on benefits are better off in the people working. They get everything give them

And most people on benefits are immigrants who have never paid into the system

If cutting benefits start with the sovereign grant .87 million for one family and about 40 million of the duchys

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.

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.

Just sort out the immigration system!

I can think of about 10 people who are claiming and work on black economy. Some have 2 cars, some get housing as a single parent but have partners who rent out their home. Drives me insane!

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

what about our new neighbours? have all they got highly paid jobs? or do the sick have to work to pay for them instead?

The real scroungers are those supermarket CEOs

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.

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.

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.

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.😎

1 in 5 DWP workers claim benefits remember that

Sounds like someone assumes everyone is a fraud?

People coming in who would earn 0.20p p/h see welfare as being rich 🤑

Too many Tories benefitting From PPE contracts and tax evasion. Buying yachts etc etc.

Let's start by getting MPs off benefits, no more subsidised restaurants & bars, no more 2nd jobs, no more free tickets to award ceremonies & sports events.

AI will screw most jobs and it will only be a few years coming. We need a basic income system, we will all be better off.

if you work 16 hours a week you can claim benefits to make up the rest on tax credits.why

simple ship migrants back home and give the jobs to our people how easy is that ?

all they ever do is London newspapers so little village news

The number of unemployed doubles...as does immigration 🤔🤔

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.