Amps my source is The Times and therefore behind a paywall but look into it and correct me if I’m wrong.

None of it is pensions - this is working age benefits I’m talking about.

Don’t know how it compares to 10 yrs ago but it’s “up 52% since the pandemic and by £34bn since Rishi Sunak became Chancellor (which is more than the combined annual budgets of the Home Office and the Foreign Office). “

“There are 5.5 million economically inactive people excluding students and retired people. “

      C_J “There are 5.5 million economically inactive people excluding students and retired people. “

      Unemployment levels at an all time low though aren’t they?

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          I rather enjoyed it. a lovely way to pass the time whilst doing the ironing. Millie looked fidgety. Charlie looked a little bored. Hazza bugged out early.

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            benson I rather enjoyed it. a lovely way to pass the time

            Where you ‘doing an Ant’?

              Along_the_Wire yeah but there’s millions claiming incapacity benefits and therefore not counted as unemployed because they’re not seeking work

                  C_J

                  The reality is a bit more nuanced than that.

                  The main benefits: Jobseekers Allowance, Employment Support Allowance (ESA), (which replaced Incapacity Benefit) is now claimed under the umbrella of Universal Credit (UC). ESA claimants are put into different ‘groups’: those who are assessed as being incapable of actively seeking work and those who are able to actively pursue work.

                  From memory, around ⅓ of all UC claimants are in employment already but claim UC to top up their wages because they in ‘in work poverty’. What was the Tories’ answer to this? “They should just get better paid jobs”.

                  If you meet the criteria of the assessment, you might be able to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which is payed to those in employment and those incapable of work.

                      Can’t fault the dippers for their continued and tireless disdain of the Tory filth, the tax dodging, Nazi sympathetic, pedo protectors and of course scruffy faced manc scum.
                      It’s a thumbs up from me 👍