Government Announces Plan to Get 'Benefit Britain' Back to Work

[@xander6522]

Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to the billionaires gaming the system.

[@e13kid]

Yep. Someone getting an extra £50 a month through fraud doesn’t compare to tax avoidance schemes.

[@stevec6427]

It's not getting much coverage in the press but Labour are currently planning to reform laws around money laundering and those reforms will hit those who avoid tax really hard as well.

[@xander6522]

@@stevec6427 I'll believe it when I see it 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@85ABC]

Very true. But they also create companies and jobs too

[@barrymcguinness2087]

@@xander6522 the biggest fraudsters of all are those who call themselves politicians as we have all seen many times .

[@peterjol]

I am in my 70's and when I was young it was easy to get a job and almost all jobs paid enough to live on (for men anyway) ...it's very different now. It's not worth working if a job doesn't pay enough to live on.

[@stanugoh9871]

Oh! So you would rather claim benefits simply because a job didn’t pay much? What a lazy man’s mentality. What happens to striving and building oneself up the ladder? Nothing is handed on a platter.

[@barrymcguinness2087]

@@peterjol yes I know only too well what you mean I remember those times too ...but please remember one important fact this country doesn't want to see those times again because it's not part of the agenda they have in mind . sadly those days are long gone ,

[@uanime1]

@@stanugoh9871 "So you would rather claim benefits simply because a job didn’t pay much?" Why work to make others rich, while you remain poor? "What happens to striving and building oneself up the ladder?" That no longer happens.

[@gemma8611]

​@@uanime1exactly! I work and barely survive. What's the point in working!

[@Regista268]

when i started reading your comment i thought 'oh here we go' but you get it, good man peter. it's not easy to get a job, employers know they're in the driving seat so they pay as little as possible and whats worse they dont care about keeping people on anymore. the job market is the problem not the benefits system which is the only thing keeping some people alive right now

[@Slightly-Below-The-Average]

Don’t take lectures on work ethic from people who wouldn’t recognise the business end of a shovel. All of these individuals hit the generational jackpot in terms of available wealth, assets and resources in this country, they’ve left nothing but crumbs and want to call you lazy because you recognise the futility and feel it as despondency.

Dead right, the lot of them turn my stomach.

[@stephenkelly2779]

Shirkers so what are over 600 unelected lords then free money free food and drink

[@dansmith263]

getting paid to do f-all its all bs

[@AndrewJepson-sn3yg]

There's 300 too many MP's as well, parliament size should be max 350, larger MP constituency's, pay them more, ban second incomes and links to any outside interest, you're there to work for the country not yourself...

[@macsmiffy2197]

Passing laws to protect punctuation.

[@alien4422]

What about the million immigrants on benefits surely we need to get these doctors and engineers back to work.

[@briankerrison8504]

Pathetic 🙄🙄🤔

[@chadimirputin2282]

​@@briankerrison8504 they certainly are.

[@lewis123417]

​@@briankerrison8504yeah pathetic that we spend money on doctors and engineers sitting around in hotels all day

[@briankerrison8504]

@ we’re not spending money on drs & engineers..if we did..issues would be better for us..🙄🙄🤔

[@Raspberry1994]

@@briankerrison8504yes because people still can’t get a gp appointment

[@dmasiodnmiod]

Welfare is nothing compared to the amounts they send to other countries & immigration. Help your own people and stop sending money abroad.

[@Ben-e9u4d]

Exactly

[@FlashForwards]

Companies taking advantage of their employees doesn't help. I work full time in a thankless 9-5 Monday to Friday job, it pays the bills. But I used to work in a care home - and loved it. I had to leave because the pay was so poor it didn't cover my rent, utilities and food. If my bills were lower, or if I was paid more, I would go back to the care industry with no hesitation. I just need to be able to break even. Add in the strict, non-negotiable 12 hour shifts with no flexible working prospects and stingy annual leave, it creates an unpleasant work environment

[@davman115]

Immigration is costing us a fortune.

[@antispindr8613]

With the summer riots, did not race hate cost us all?

[@desmondroberts6034]

@davman115 The money from visa fees alone more than pays for the cost of asylum-seekers.

[@jay19675]

@@desmondroberts6034 They get billions in visa fees???

[@desmondroberts6034]

@@jay19675 Yes, in 2022, the Home Office made £2.2bn from immigration and nationality fees; and £1.7bn from the NHS surcharge and a further £600 million from the Employer Levies . Look it up.

[@stanugoh9871]

@@jay19675Yes they do! Go check how much they made from visa applications, immigration health surcharge and school fees across board. It marvels to read the level of myopia and ignorance among the British public to be honest.

[@lizmac8819]

Perhaps you could deal with societies bigotry towards disabled people

[@stevedonoghue2385]

Definitely I've heard about a family called the windsors they haven't worked for generations, get everything handed to them on a plate and are idolised.....

[@BritWolf1]

Sanction their benefits!

[@sueburgess847]

They own a lot of land. They don't pay IHT. And they don't pay the bedroom tax on their. 900 spare bedrooms.

[@AJRo-l2d]

I think idolised is taking it a bit too far! Maybe in the odd case idle but idolised? 😊

[@adam8268]

Attacking bullying the ill and disabled

[@555555345]

They always do but we don't even break the law but they act like we are. It is utterly disgusting 🤢

[@Wishing_you_peace]

Separate category to unemployed and seeking work I hope. 😢

[@joeldavidhardy]

I have autism and ADHD and a syndrome barely anyone has heard of. Getting a Job is very difficult for me as I’ve not had experience. I’d like a Job but I also need extra support within a Job too 😢

[@maxib870]

Thank you Susanna for reading out the viewers comments about their disabilities and worries. 🙏

[@Karenhilton-fs2zd]

What jobs? Companies are down sizing leaving britian because of taxes millions of illegals taking jobs so please tell me where these jobs are coming from

[@stevec6427]

What companies are downsizing and leaving? Any examples?

[@AJRo-l2d]

The only company rumoured to be downsizing is Vauxhall but that is more to do with the government’s drive to net zero. I’m sure when the rest of the World see how serious we are on net zero that the rest will follow.

[@SDC-]

They just put up employers tax contributions now who is going to employ them when the employers have less money😮. Are they that thick 🙉

[@jennylou2076]

I have anxiety and work full time because anxiety to not afford my bills out weighs the anxiety of leaving the house

[@jayneearl2248]

There is a difference between having anxiety and having a severe mental impairment.

[@imwatchingonyoutube5024]

You have no avoidant behaviour you don’t have severe anxiety

[@sarah-d6e1e]

You're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have it that badly then. Having worked in mental health for years, I've witnessed individuals so profoundly affected by mental health, despite their best efforts and deepest desires, they were unable to accomplish even the simplest tasks

[@Raspberry1994]

@@sarah-d6e1ewhy so much in the past recent years? Do you think social media? Never used to be a thing 2011 and before? Now everyone has full blown anxiety?? Well that can’t be good and not a good idea to put them all on the dole for it either?

[@Ben-e9u4d]

So what is your comment trying to prove? Or is it just a dig at those who can't work? Try having autism, adhd, ptsd, personality disorder, severe anxiety and depression, physical ailments, pretty much housebound other than your dog getting you out, you SHOULD be working if you've just got a bit of anxiety, bore off.

[@kevinhay3778]

This is like sitting in a pub at 11.30 listening to the people who have nowhere to go 😭🤣🤣

[@devdhaliwal6152]

😂😂

And have retired.

[@actionjackson180]

How about axing tax-payers money on the following: 1)State sponsored privatisation. 2)Propping up the defence industry 3)The Monarchy 4)Subsidies for the politicians ; free travel and accommodation and unjustfied pay rises. 5)NGOs 6)PFIs 7)Government making donations abroad To name but a few.

[@mjl2904]

As much as I hate to say it politicians should be paid more so that we get better people in politics. But I agree the subsidies for second homes in London should end, you should have a house in your constituency and stay in a budget hotel when attending Westminster

[@jujutrini8412]

@@mjl2904 They should have built something purpose built for MPs years ago. It should be well secured.

[@louisbaker4362]

The monarchy pays more into the system than they take out as part of the sovereign grant.

[@mummyd1990]

The word "FORCE" says it all.

[@liamthorley]

Andrew Pearce is really intolerable. He's hysterical and resorts to shouting the same few unevidenced statements over and over. He needs to be replaced.

[@danhancock422]

There isn’t enough work out there for a million people

[@mcharles8807]

It's ok to say that work solves everything, but no one is talkiing about the lak of jobs out there. Employers are not employing, and when applying for a job, you are competing with 500 other applicants, sometimes more. Getting a job is not that easy

[@carriem362]

The white paper this ties in with refers to "people across the country who cannot access the support they need to improve their living standards and build a better life", and suggests "work" is the solution to that. This seems to suggest that the government is fine with unwaged sick and disabled people not being able to access the support they need. It also refers to the "dignity" that work can provide. This seems to suggest that the government doesn't think unwaged sick and disabled people have dignity.

[@JohnTrevor-t2t]

Ed Ball they kicked him out as an mp. itv need to do the same

[@steventwine8705]

Are they going to sort out their main voters, the musliums, are they going to get them into work? Will they stop their benefits? Or is it going to be a 2 teir benefit system?

[@prideofdurham4776]

It only applies to 18-21 year old Brits.Reeves has done her homework , illegal immigrants in 3*+ hotels are exempt!

[@HarvesterYT]

Muslims aren’t very likely to vote Labour given their stance on Gaza.

[@stevec6427]

How can muslims be their main voters? Firstly, muslims hate Labour's liberal gender policies, secondly they only make up 6% of the population. Illegal migrants in hotels aren't allowed to work, they were until Priti Patel changed the law.

[@briankerrison8504]

⁠@@prideofdurham4776they are no longer hotels..they are refugee refuge processing buildings..🙄🙄🤔

[@briankerrison8504]

@@HarvesterYTpathetic 🙄🙄🤔

[@BritWolf1]

This wont work anyway, you cannot force those with serious MH issues back into work. Youll just force them to harm themselves or someone else..

[@R-S-X]

Pretty much. Homeless and suicide rate will end up going up. Wonder if there'll show the numbers before and after there great plan.

[@danneal6510]

people with disabilities can still work

[@hannahheywood9439]

Plus I've got medical evidence to prove my illnesses. Can Andrew prove he's gay.

[@danneal6510]

@@BritWolf1 mental health issues get worse if you don't work though

[@lewis123417]

Sanctioning people can make the situation so much worse, pushing people further into poverty isn't going to get them into work and it isnt going to make them the sort of people emplpyers want to hire. If we lived in a normal time where wages paid enough to live comfortably maybe theyd work but why give up 40 hours a week of your life to still be living paycheck to paycheck? Most people will work but huge numbers of people wont under these circumstances. Im not surprised more of us are too depressed to work

[@bowiefan6652]

I'm struggling with the dichotomy of forcing people into work, in a job market in which the hike in employer's N.I is making it prohibitively expensive for businesses to set them on. Are they not aware that many businesses are having to downsize because of this idiotic policy?

[@simonpearce9076]

You don't need jails for low level offenders. You need forced community service to earn your place back in society. Therefore cleaning streets, fixing churches, cutting grass, cleaning up grave yards etc. This way you can plug holes in council budgets, make offenders feel worthwhile, enable them contribute positively and teach them new skills.

[@maxinehargreaves8371]

Good old fashioned" COMMUNITY PUNISHMENT"

[@nyxnecrodragon4256]

Just lost my job thanks to this budget but can't claim benefits without my family being split up. Merry Christmas.

[@chadvader974]

Is this a Labour government, or did the tories get back in?

[@An-Alien-On-Earth]

Why is the husband of the home secretary doing a segment on politics? This shouldn't be allowed

[@AbigailBrown-wk7xl]

Employers need to support people to thrive at work

[@simonwhiting6929]

What does the term “shirker” even mean? Who decides if someone is fit for work, usually it is some government appointed private company incentivised to rule everyone is fit for work regardless of their symptoms. Far from a country of lazy shirkers this country actually leaves £23 billion unclaimed in benefits each year. This is just a policy aimed at those Torygraph and Daily Mail readers who believe everything they read.

[@lewis123417]

We have a higher rate of worker sickness than anyone else. That's not a lie

[@MrPotato-Head]

Stop sending money to other countries.

[@twinkle231979]

The reason its ’benefit britain’ is -the economy crashed and there are no jobs. Even recent graduates in my university city are struggling to get the most basic supermarket jobs. What are they going to do, suddenly create millions of new jobs out of thin air?

[@stevec6427]

Why are graduates going for supermarket jobs? There's loads of graduate schemes and you don't even need a profession relevant degree

[@twinkle231979]

@ because they can’t get jobs in their fields and they have bills to pay.

[@MelissaOdisee]

Because its becoming imposible to get a job in the area you spent years training in! As if years of study and practice on the job is not enough now they want 3 years experience on top without giving you the chance to get said experience. Now they look for any job in a supermarket which is becoming harder. ​@stevec6427

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

Get the Private Equity firms out of the DWP as all they're interested in is the PROFIT, not getting folk into employment.

[@AJRo-l2d]

That’ll never happen because Kier and his cabinet will get it in the neck in the smoking room at Westminster from those with connections to the private equity firms.

[@Ben-e9u4d]

If people can work, OF COURSE they should, but those with are ACTUALLY disabled should be given the help they need, an anxiety disorder is not sufficient enough to not be working. That would at least be a start.

[@turingtrading5301]

If you don't pay any tax in your life why should you get anything out? Worked for 35 years plus paying tax and on the two occasions in between jobs I was unable to claim anything. So from my POV, scrap benefits for those who can work but do not.

[@adrianappleyard4005]

I, along with many, do not and never will trust Rachael from Customer Services ever again.

[@jujutrini8412]

The petition is laughable. People know it is worthless.

[@Royboy50]

I feel sorry for the young of today I’m 74 and would not wish this government on anyone especially the young ,I have 5 grandchildren all teenagers it’s going to be hard Labour for them

[@Ciara.Higgins-xz9im]

Also 2 men aged 67 both live in one bedroom council flats. One had a £5000 per year and state pension he has to pay rent and community charge et c so he's left with £10500. The other no private pension gets rent and community charge paid so is left with all his state pension £11000 ? And he gets fuel allowance and free dentist WHY BOTHER.

[@leanneswift2445]

Same happened with my poor dad 😢 He was shafted 😢 they took majority off my dad so he was left nothing much ,all that hard work from the age of 13 ,came to nothing . Everything u earn is taken back by the system in some way ,working or not working 😕 in the uk . Like my dad always said " At the end of the day ,we are all just a number ,from birth 2 death

[@AllanHinde-mb2pr]

Does that mean all the economic migrants as well?

[@anfieldreds_1892]

but they’re working…hence economic migrants. your statement doesn’t make sense. if you say you want them out, then at least it’s a sensible statement in relation to the point in question.

[@teresabelshaw4262]

No we've to to work to pay taxes to pay for them allegedly.

[@anfieldreds_1892]

@@teresabelshaw4262 how so? considering they are economic migrants. they are working and paying taxes, some more taxes than yiu

[@SandraDent-lf4xy]

No they're exempt

[@stevec6427]

If they aren't working then they aren't economic migrants. If it was benefits they wanted, they'd go to Germany or France where they'll get more

[@robertdavies8305]

This has been done before. When I worked in manufacturing. I had people being told they had to find work. Some lasted 6 weeks and then went back on to benefits. Some worked for a few weeks and disappeared from the plant. On one occasion we had to search the plant to see if the person was hurt or anything. But we found out he had worked out. All he did was say it was not for him and got back on benefits. Many people who work in businesses will have the same story. I can say this when you got a real worker who wanted to stay they did next and got on well. Disabled people who want to work will find work. However, not all businesses have the facilities for disabled people. This is another abuse of the venerable. Easy targets.

[@shaneD7378]

Good start. If you haven't got a valid reason not to work, you should be forced to work, not sponge of the state. But the best thing to do is stop paying for the people in dinghys hotels and stop all their handouts. If I were to migrate to another country, I would be expected quite rightly to pay for myself with no help

[@pauldickinson5316]

We're being taken for a ride............. again. The Government wasted over £9.9 billion on PPE, which is more than it would cost to give every nurse in the NHS a 100 per cent bonus on their salary. The figure comes from the Department of Health’s Annual Report, which reveals it spent: • £673 million on PPE “not suitable for any use” • £2,581 million on PPE “not suitable for use in the NHS” • £4.7 billion paying inflated pandemic prices for PPE we didn’t need to buy • £750 million buying PPE which will pass its expiry date before we can use it. It has also “written down” the value of £1.231 billion in PPE, which is still yet to be delivered. 37providers”. Some of it is too complex to be recycled and so will need to be burned. Thanks to an FOI response, Good Law Project can also reveal that, between April 2020 and August 2021, the Government spent £677.6 million storing excess PPE. And it continues to spend £500,000 a day on this.

[@m1tch506]

Ive applied for several jobs and never got them because they would never respond back brilliant

[@stevengray5549]

People don't trust her because they believe all the billionaire run media tell them not to. Unfortunately, many people don't actually use their own brains...if they are, then i despair of this country

[@bobjrdj]

Would that include illegal immigrants here for the free ride? No, didn't think so.

[@TheBurnsyburns]

I don't believe all MPs are genuine

[@jonh7054]

They can find jail space for people who have said naughty words, but they can't find space for repeat career criminals.

[@andrewwilson5154]

Get them back to work, that way they can get paid £11.44, no occupational sick pay, then you can cut their support while they struggle with rising bus fares, train fares, council tax that they previously got relief with. They can put their children in the non existent childcare places and out of their £11.44 an hour they'll only get around £8 after tax. Oh and then we can all act surprised when they don't swap their old Vauxhall Corsa for a £54K EV

[@Tom_murray89]

Yes definitely private equity needs to stick to the private sector and not interfere in the public sector because it costs a load of money which at the end of the day comes out of the public purse

[@AbigailBrown-wk7xl]

People deserve a livable wage to cover there bills and expenses

[@Chosen1-g6w]

Stop changing the subject ! Starmer is the problem 100%

[@AJRo-l2d]

Not Sir Kier of Altruism? Shurely not.

[@gamingwithangel582]

Even the supermarkets are losing tills due to self service.

[@marylove9246]

That man is married to an MP. Get Richard back on he thinks it's funny get him off.

[@garyfletcher1910]

The rich has always kicked the poor.

[@StephenJohnson-hl4kz]

I'm unemployed again at 60 years old. I have been getting a few interviews and it seems to be that i'm being told that there are about 30 people being interview after 1 job. Maybe the government might like to pension some people off earlier and at least their would be less people to look for work as not enough jobs. Oh well, DWP have no clue in how to help.

[@JosephODonohue-zf5on]

Sign the petition, Change is coming, The world is watching

[@antispindr8613]

The Tories lost the election, get over it!

[@lewis123417]

People are sick of the low pay and poor conditions. Employers have avoided the free market laws of supply and demand by having unlimited cheap labour from abroad. Theyre struggling to get the staff? Then they need to offer more pay

[@shadowmc2609]

Hate to burst the bubble but that IS the free market at work. It’s a market free from any meaningful regulation that allows monopolies to drive wages down as low as possible because they can compensate by said cheap labour abroad. It’s been like this for at least a century, and they’re not going to stop unless we start pushing back against their interests.

[@johngreen6191]

What employer is going to employ someone who does not want to work? I don't believe all of this anyway. There are no propper jobs out there.

[@Skye.beyond]

Maybe factory work or something which ill people can’t do. Desk jobs to make people sit down all day instead of spending their time recovering like they should be allowed to do?

[@leataylor9845]

​@@Skye.beyond even if there's employment opportunities they rarely pay enough to make it worth coming off benefits. You'd need a job that pays ~ £40,000 after tax to replace the amount received in disability benefits (PIP and UC with disability element)

[@johngreen6191]

@@Skye.beyond Competition for jobs is fierce out there. You are thinking about how it was 30/40 years ago. Plus we need at least 5 million jobs to make a dent in the nuumbers we have now and why do people on low pay get top ups from the government? I have a lot of experience in job hunting and it is not so easy. It is sometimes demoralising. It worked out for me but I do think of others too. GP's have been a problem from as far as I can remember. They give you 10 minutes and for them it is simple, sign them off, "unfit to work". I still do not know anyone who wold give a job to someone that lets you down. More trouble that it is worth with the new legislation coming in.

[@fpvangel4495]

Every job has been chopped up to share amongst the increasing many, talk about arrested development, its been going on since 1972!!!

[@Skye.beyond]

@@fpvangel4495 I’ve heard that there aren’t enough jobs for everybody. Therefore this is maybe just a scheme to get more money into the NHS.

[@footballoldboy4818]

What did people do 50 years ago before we told them they were bi-polar, depressed or had PTSD?

[@MrKiingpin]

Do you actually not believe in bi polar or PTSD? unemployment is lower than it was in the 70s and 80s

[@footballoldboy4818]

@MrKiingpin no it isn't. In 70s and 80s, people unemployed, too sick to work or awaiting asylum applications was far lower than it is now. We just reclassified them. It is proven that a huge improvement is seen in people suffering from stress, mental health and other such issues via a reason to get out of bed and routine. The pride of earning your own money and the friendships forged at work are incredibly beneficial to everyone. People came back from WW1 and worked. I'm sure their PTSD was worse.

[@jasonpage9986]

​@@footballoldboy4818 Maybe people got through it by smoking back in those days.

[@AJRo-l2d]

When I started work 40 years ago on a YTS, I thought I would go out clubbing for 5 or 6 years from 18 years old, find a partner, buy a house and have children. I did all that without much thought. If I was 18 now with no qualifications and saw the price of houses, cars and a pint, I fear I may struggle but I was instilled with a work ethic from my parents. That said I think I would still prefer my chances in the eighties to those now!

[@Judith46795]

They were put into mental instulitutions

[@Sodoff-c2b]

Share n sign the petition calling for general election .

[@stevec6427]

That petition is not a good idea. If it achieves it's aim of forcing an election then it'll set a dangerous precedent that the left will exploit soon enough. The left and right are fairly equal in the UK and iif one side can get a few million signatures then so can the other when it's their turn, especially if they know it works

[@yvonneparmenter9251]

No thanks, The election was democratic, deal with the result.

[@DavidR_192]

With this rhetoric, there really is no difference between the Tories and Labour.

[@teresabelshaw4262]

Give us decent wages then we will work wheres all the jobs coming from????

[@garyfletcher1910]

£86 Universal Credit. It'll pay for Andrew's toilet rolls.

[@David-c8r8c]

Poor Kevin is floundering badly trying to defend the indefensible.

[@BlueSabor]

🤣👍

[@Anntony]

Maguire looking panic stricken.

[@mee5780]

Government are so out of touch. They want to get to the job centre. They will see a mass of people who successive governments have allowed to become absolutely useless to most employers. The likelihood of many of these people being able to be of any use to an employer is slim to none. I worked in Employability for years...While employers have the choice of overseas workers, why on earth would you choose to employ someone who hasn't worked in 20 years, can barely manage thier own personal care and have mental resilience of a toddler. The expectations of unemployed people are also ridiculous. I had able bodied people who hadn't worked for 10 years demanding £30k a year jobs and refusing to travel over half hour or not wanting early mornings/shift work. There were ALWAYS jobs avaliable in care or hospitality but they were absolutely not entertaining them. I think any long term unemployed person over 40 should just receive vouchers for food/fuel and be left to get on with it. If they WANT to engage absolutely we should invest in them.. but please stop throwing more money away on people who don't want to work and who are unlikely to be any use to an employer

[@antispindr8613]

Totally lacking in human compassion and wanting to kick the disabled when they are down, bet you cannot wait for the return of the Nasty Party?

[@antispindr8613]

Totally lacking in human compassion and wanting to kick the disabled when they are down, bet you cannot wait for the return of the Nasty Party?

[@barrymcguinness2087]

Ok lets be fair start targeting the migrants who come here and just take and dont work and pay into the system instead of turning a blind eye to them and financially persecuting our own poor and working class and lets not forget the elderly who have worked payed into the system and served this country,

[@Peter-MH]

Benefits are so generous that people are far better off on benefits in many cases - and the more people taking this route, the more they raise taxes on workers to pay for it, meaning more think ‘why work?!’

[@stewartgreig3272]

This has been a problem with unemployed people for a long, long time. I remember feorge Galloway taking about it, even former dwp minister ian duncan smith. For 40 years we have had a rundown of traditional industries resulting in unemployment. What businesses/employers are going to open factories in these areas furnishing suitable basic jobs that people can do ? These business people don't operate charities. More and fimrs are operating on line. Thus reduced workforce.

[@Ciara.Higgins-xz9im]

I went on English course by choice, 4 lads were sent on course from the job centre, they hardly turned up and I overheard 2 of them saying, stuff this just say your grandad has died that will get you out of this. They get sent on courses and just never turn up.

[@elainemackie1431]

Yeh I experienced that too. Went to college for my HNC and there were lots of unemployed single parents there because they got their fees paid and travel expenses - it was to encourage them to get back to work - they never submitted work or attended regularly

[@Withnail1969]

I don't know if people can get away with that now, they seem to sanction benefits at the drop of a hat.

[@dezdemona5269]

Where are the jobs. Tata closing Vauxhall closing high street shops closing banks closing branches. Train people. For what. To work where.

[@mikeytw91]

To be fair, nobody is going to email in saying “ I’m perfectly capable of working im just to lazy and get enough benefits so I don’t have to” are they? Of course it’s only genuine people who will write in. No way there are that many millions who can’t work! It’s insulting to rational thought and the people who go out to work everyday to fund these people’s lifestyle. The worst part, because of the money they zap out the system the very genuine in need people are often left behind, refused help or have to jump through humiliating hoops to get a slither of help they need.

[@Gashinshoutan2009]

It is estimated in 2023, two per cent of total expenditure or £163.2 million of public money was lost through benefit fraud.

[@Jonnyshoot192]

FREE LEGAL AID NOW FOR MIGRANTS, BRITISH JACK S/-/IT DIDDLY EXCEPT MORE TAXATION.

[@Bluelion0911]

What are the incentives to work when living on benefits lives a better life than working and paying taxes?

[@julianshepherd2038]

It would help if I had a GP and public transport that wasn't a joke. I want to work but I need fixed.

[@guy4469]

Esther Mcvey said people with MS will be ok in 6 months ,

[@shruttikhaz5486]

Why dont politicians understand at all that they should create jobs for benefit claimants to work & get off benefits? Increasing hourly wages, NI payments, etc, on businesses done by the Govt. leads to businesses sacking employees & it increases unemployment. Govt. Policy: create plans & policies which causes job losses to working class people & keep cutting or stopping benefit payments of such unemployed people. Put tax payers off working & paying taxes by throwing their hard earned tax payments on illegal migrants. This is what Tories did for 14 years and what Labour Starmer Govt. Has done since past 4 months. WHY dont MSNM utter such factual things?

[@Lez325]

How many Illegal Immigrant's receive benefits - end this madness and stop them coming- using force if required - protect our borders

[@christopherrmcarter1809]

No bots on this petition. Just many angry people.

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

just being able to sign a petition multiple times Laughable

[@jujutrini8412]

You are very naive.

[@MasonDixonAutistic]

This is tedious to listen to. None of them seem to know anything on the topics they're opining about. Welcome to Good Morning Britain.

[@MyFrankieee]

I think Suzanne is quite caring and always sticks up for for people with job issues and uc & disabilities shes understanding

[@JJJ-808]

crazy having the husband of a government minister in a debate, on top of Kevin just shouting over the top of everyone

[@jujutrini8412]

Andrew is the one interrupting Kevin the whole time. I don’t think he was allowed to finish a single sentence.

[@cyberhead243]

Even though the NI increase is on employers we have already been told by my company that any pay rise will be less than anticipated to compensate for extra outgoing burden on the companies finances. So yes in a roundabout way it is a tax on workers.

[@mrcolemans4504]

u can’t force people into work breach of human rights and freedom smh 🤦‍♂️

[@WestWeAre]

How about looking after our own? its a very simple question.

[@DayZ96]

We need more people working to support our fellow immigrants living the highlife come on benefit Britain

[@edwardlocke1911]

Where are all these jobs coming from when they destroying manufacturing putting thousands in the benefit system due to net zero policy made by incompetent c%nts in parliament.

[@andrewdownie62]

Carers save this country millions, & disabled folk like me that don’t go whinging to SS for care as I’m skjnt & qualify are p”d off at being called a burden , we’ve been bad over by being put on meds we hate and I’ve got off pain killers & the pain it’s just the same as on meds so why the meds for life ? So if ya listen to RFK he’s right about big pharma . I thought of a way for starmer to help himself but he’s a mad head & won’t listen to colleagues never mind a disabled guy . That can’t work .

[@johngregson9827]

Stop the benifits of illegal immigrants, labour pledges no more tax rises, at least until the next budget, labour do need time to dig a black hole in time for the budget

[@Higbardon]

There is a massive work pool of late 50's out there that HR isn't even replying to, the only time that will change is if there is legislation which says x% of a company's work force has to be 55 to 67. Apple, Ebay, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook, Google, Adobe, Cisco and a lot more besides didn't pay tax to the tune of between £2 and 5.6 Billion, get the legislation changed make them pay and in 4 to 6 years that £22 Billion deficit hole the government is expecting the tax payer to fill, will be a very small blip in the road. It's staggering that when needed, laws can be changed in weeks, however, when it comes to big multinationals no one wants to deal with them. And sure these companies will posture and bleat about how they will no longer operate in the UK, but the bottom line is they will and they will swallow the cost, because passing it on to the customer will mean loss of sales. Some one needs to take the stand and inform these companies that that's the price of doing business in the UK.

[@applejuice5068]

Because they are the ones, who are lobbing governments all over the world 🌎.. They make law just for themselves and their money and power is protected.

[@briankerrison8504]

It did say employees .. didn’t mention employers.. Labour says its pledge to “not increase National Insurance” applied to “working people”, not employers..🤔😎

[@Wishing_you_peace]

What about people not claiming benefits who dont work, they could be paying tax/more tax?

[@yammydodger1988]

Disabled people are one thing, but the country is full of workshy dossers that don't want to do anything, why should we, the taxpayer foot the bill for them, generations are growing up in families that have never seen a parent working, so they take on that lifestyle. It has to stop.

[@brianhood4182]

Kevin Maguire is one of these people who says good lock to the shirkers and he is Ok with the loss of money in the process, on the other hand Andrew Pearce was spot on shirkers should be made to work or lose benefits.