ScaredWebWarrior

One of the biggest problems with the benefit system as it is is that to thwart the fraudsters they've made it so unwieldly, that it also makes it difficult for the people for whom it was intended to apply successfully.

The multi-page forms are enough to put off anyone with an ounce of self-respect, as the questions ask that you lay your entire life bare to them - no more privacy regards anything in your life.
Of course, this is no obstacle to people with no self-respect, and I think it is fair to say that the benefit scroungers are all in that category.

Then, even if you pass that hurdle, having filled out all the forms honestly you find that all sorts of things you wrote down now limit your entitlement - as the system tries to do it's best to give as little as possible.
Again, those that are not honest do better - must be those scroungers again.

After all of that, what you then maybe get it possibly not even enough.

And then people wonder why we get so angry at the people raking in thousands a month on benefit.

I have a child for whom we get a low rate of DLA, even though we should get more. And when I was made redundant a few years back and struggled to get back into work the amount of benefit I got each week was a small fraction of our grocery bill each week. Even though I'd always been employed and paid into the system throughout.

It certainly doesn't seem fair to me that the honest, hard-working among us should fare so badly when we hit a rough patch, yet the lazy liars get it all handed on a plate.

The solution is NOT limiting benefit or making it ever more difficult to obtain, but to make sure that those who do get it are not taking the p!ss.