Re: The state benefits system mega-thread. Many merged.
There are some people claiming sickness benefit that shouldn't be as during the last government many were put onto IB by job centres looking to manipulate figures encouraged by the then government. Sadly Hero there are a great many people who cannot work whether you choose to believe it or not and not because of lifestyle choices or even self inflicted. Medicine has a greater understanding of many illnesses that in the past would have been ignored or covered by medication drastically shortening the lives of those affected. Progress has a lot of pluses and a few downsides but don't worry this coalition is doing it's best to demonize to the point many leave the longterm benefit they were on and go play the merry go round game bit less money but no hassle, no medicals and because they are perpetuately classed as short term they don't impact the figures as much.
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