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@JWestland
Welfare here is shit. I know some people seem to get a good deal, but I suspect those that do often play the system.
If you are honest it's piss. Working Tax Credits is the only one that's not so bad, but it's to keep people in work.
I suppose the line of reasoning is that if people have to choose between starving and a crap low paid job, they'd take that.
But perhaps not, perhaps they go into criminality/really can't work due to family or health/can't pay to get to the job/etc etc...is there research on this?