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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Ok the total welfare budget is around 240 billion.
Incapacity benefit makes up 12.5 billion. (I got this from press as not on budget report I looking at, so may not be accurate)
Some comparisons.
Pensions make up 129 billion more than half (no cuts to existing claimants)
Child related benefits 19.7 billion (cuts but are soft)
Housing benefits including LHA according to press 21billion.
If I am not mistaken IB is the smallest of those and yet is the hardest been hit, logically someone would look to reduce the biggest bills first as there is more to gain easier. This is all political, if they hit pensions then they garuanteed to lose next election, hitting sickness benefits is just a minority set of weak people.
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Some information
IFS Survey of the UK Benefit System, November 2010 -
link
In 2009-10, £188 billion was spent on Social Security benefits -broken down in page 6 of the PDF into
Total benefits for families with children £34.1 billion
Total benefits for unemployed people £4.9 billion
Total benefits for people on low incomes £41.6 billion
Total benefits for elderly people £78.4 billion
Total benefits for sick and disabled people £28.6 billion
Total benefits for bereaved people £0.7 billion
In there,
Retirement Pension = £66.9 billion claimed by 12.5 million people
Some form of Disability Benefit / Attendance & Carers Allowance = £26.3 billion claimed by/for 7.9 million people
Child related Benefits = £34.1 billion claimed by 14.3 million people
Housing/Council Tax Benefits = £24.7 billion claimed by 10.6 million people
And obviously, due to circumstances, some people may be eligible/claiming more than one of the above.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
not to mention also its the baby boomer generation who tend to get looked after who are all hitting pension age now or soon.
Also there has been some protests in london (albeit small ones), the bbc when invited refused to go saying it wasnt in the publics interest to cover the story.
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Linky, please?