'It's brazen CORRUPTION' | Benefits cheats 'laid bare' in GB News exclusive: 54% of UK on benefits
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- 'Are you seriously telling me 54% of this country really need to be on benefits?! Come on now, it's clearly far too easy to sign on nowadays...'
Patrick Christys clashes with Jeni Barnett over benefit fraud, as it's revealed 53.8% of the UK population receive benefits payments.
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These cheats give those of us with genuine disabilities a bad name.
When you're truly medically disabled you are homebound and depressed.
What about asylum cheats who steal billions
Very narrow view indeed
I take it you don't live with physical problems. Disability doesn't mean housebound
No one ever mentions asylum fraud
Yet at the same time the dwp are refusing genuine applications, total incompetence.
Let me guess you got rejected and couldn’t afford cocaine?!
@@Grid519Mine is , serious mental health diagnosis BPD and OCD , got refused . My Ex Girlfriend that was a DWP assessor got pip for her son that was at school for dyslexia that he didn't have .
@@Grid519From the day I was refused i decided never again will I EVER pay one single penny of contributions in this country again. So i purposely work up until the tax free threshold now .
I have kidney failure and on dialysis.
I hate to fight for months to get mine, including attending a health assessment.
I was asked if I could work when I wasn't at dialysis 3 times a week...
Every now and then, you hear about the 3 or 4 benefit cheats, and everyone assumes everyone is cheating or it's somehow easy to get benefits .
Since they moved over to UC its a shitshow.
@tabularasa7775 One of the main issues is, if you are so seriously ill may not have the terminology to even explain what's going on or even fully understand yourself.
Then someone with mild anxiety gets a cheat sheet online and screws the system. Its really sad. Hope you get it sorted. There are charities that can help you fill in forms.
If you fraudulently claim benefits you should never be allowed to claim them again.
What about dodgy PPE contracts and tax loopholes?
@@kevingrant7098Exactly. There's nothing like focusing the blame on the poorest in society to detract from the wealthy getting away with it.
@@kevingrant7098 delivering their illegal ppe is basically aiding and abetting crime
Both things can be legitimate issues worth fighting. They aren't mutually exclusive you know. And being poor doesn't preclude someone from criticism. It damn well didn't for my family, why should it for anyone else?@@jaycloth2197
In 2008 when I got job seekers allowance, I was sanctioned for looking after a neighbours kid one evening while they went out.
My fee: A Sunday lunch the next day and their warm house to sit in for the evening.
What the JSA charged me: £15 per hour for 4hrs.
4 weeks JSA gone in a ‘fraudulent’ claim cause I was “working”.
I don’t think that’s the solution cause some claims they make it up so as to not pay you.
I still wonder to this day which neighbour did that.
They call the old age pension a benefit now, that's not right!
Definitely not abenefit, what I find annoying is, those who have never worked get the pension, plus pension credit. I worked all my life, because i have a private pension which stops me claiming pension credit.....why you may ask cause I get £5 more, which stops me claiming pension credit
For people in their 20's, 30's and 40's; They won't get a pension at all, despite the fact they are paying for peoples pensions right now. The money is running out, its the reasons we keep having to put the retirement age up, can't afford it otherwise, despite the country going further and further into dept to pay its bills. @@anneking2631
@@anneking2631what are we meant to do for older people who haven’t paid into anything? Just allow them to starve? Go cold?
That’s the problem with people in the country, all about mememememme, the generation of dinosaurs who will happily pull the ladder up behind you and f everyone else.
Yeah it’s a fudging disgrace, the way some pensioners get treated you worked most your life paid full stamp and get screwed over!! Yet the give to elderly people who never does a days work it’s beggars belief??
But they still tax it . When other people on benefits get free council tax and no income tax . If they taxed these benefits you would soon get some of the cheaters back to work
DWP would have a field day in Tower Hamlets with the disability scammers
The amount of benefit fraud going on in those communities is absolutely insane. I dread to think how much they're costing us.
Wrong ethnicity to be scrutinised.
This is why the white British are saying F You now
@@wurblecheck the national debt then…
Do you mean Pakistan's capital city?
Investigate migrants biggest fiddle going
If I'm having my money thieved by scum via the benefits system I want all of these quims found and sent to prison, whether domestic or foreign.
Your ignorance appals me. What a sad life you must have
Ooh..I thought it is the migrant workers who work hard and pay taxes and the ones who are even deliberately jobless get the honey!
Some migrants are bleeding the system dry. At present a couple will have to work 30 hours per week in total and they can claim UC and other benefits. In most cases, one of the couple work 30 hours or a combination between the two to complete 30 hours and the rest is all on cash in hand. Many security jobs are paid in cash ( Big stores hire security guards from agencies and that is where corruption starts) and this is how benefit cow is milked on a regular basis.
@garygeorge-wi7co The ones that landed across channel get 30 pounds a day spending money 💰 mean while our vetrans sleep on the street
Employ the cheats, they know more about the system than the staff employed in the Benefits Dept
Employ them to find other cheats.
Most benefit claimants are in work legally claiming benefits. The benefits they claim are there to subsidise big business payroll bill. It allows big business to increase their profits via ths tax payers.
Absolutely
They're already in those departments, granting assistance to friends and relatives.
They won't suddenly change their opinions you'll just give them access to more people they can help make the same loophole claims
If you really understood the people who have worked and payed all taxes and national insurance throughout their lifetime and are now the people paying for the newcomers .. most of which bring nothing but increased crime rates.
For all that second rate people in our own country and I do mean our country.
If that offends anyone .. I look at all the people who lost their lives protecting what we were .. A christian country.
Now we have imported violence and insecurity.
To finish .. The genuine people who are ill and disabled have paid their dues are paying the price for mass immigration.
Well said. This uncontrolled immigration is destroying our country. Culturally and Economically. Put our people first. Britain 🇬🇧 first.
I agree. Meanwhile they keep increasing our working life so those who bother continue getting screwed for this BS
The best comment, the worst benefit fraudsters are the illegal migrants
They have to increase it to 70 so they can pay for all the newcomers. And then they’ll cover it up and blame on another group. Because if they admit to £8million per day, u can bet its far higher. We’re all the mugs for letting it happen.
@@nods33 would agree 100% much easier to blame the RF,
People who actually cant walk often have the lived reality of daily pain and an impaired quality of life, so Its disgusting that someone says they cant walk and then has the audacity to do a 7 mile marathon or go water skiing, all while genuine claimants struggle just to get to the local shop.
its difficult not to wish Karma on people who falsely claim disability benefits... so they would know how people who actually have that problem often struggle on a daily basis.
What would you think if there was £20m in overpayment with fraud but the biggest fraud is DWP underpayment by £60m
@@SandraS64 they only seem to care about Fraud when its the state end of thigs that is the plaintiff.
4000 million of tax payers money to support sunaks wifes private buisness ? 😊
@@MsMuffin52 they have to deflect and blame everyone for their hands in the tax pot as if its theirs.
And the rest that s just whats declared or known..
How long will you be singing the same song? No matter how small the money is, a cheating is a cheating. The amount is immaterial.
It’s disgusting when people really do need it.
Illegals are the doing it two in the 1000s
Some people really do need it. But at this rate the number of fake claims is so high, we might just have to stop it for everyone.
@@Build_Secretswhat do you think is the rate of fake claims?
Having known many people in my life who happily go to raves, dancing for 12 hours strait, but are deemed unable to do any work and live fully on taxpayer money. I can tell you it is far higher than anyone thinks.
But at this point, its not even the fake claims that bother me. Its the fact the MAJORITY of people are getting benefits. The only people who should be getting benefits are those temporarily out of work through no fault of their own, the severely disabled, and those with children.
The problem is we tax people to death in this country. Even when I was on minimum wage, well below the living wage, I still had council tax to pay, NI contributions to make, up to 20% VAT to pay on goods and services, fuel duty, car tax, and on it goes. There should be no tax on earnings below the living wage, and no tax on spending below that amount either. Then we wouldn't need all these handouts! @@everest9707
@Build_Secrets it's actually quite a small number, but whenever someone gets caught fiddling for a large amount, it's pushed across every media outlet so it makes it look more common than it is.
All of this sensationalism is to generate outrage so the government can get permission to look at everybody's bank accounts without any kind of warrant.
Does benefits include Universal Credit?
Most people working in big supermarkets are on UC.
Sunaks wife gets 4000 million to support her buisness
Yes it does think it’s 55% of people are on some type of benefits
No, universal credit is stand-alone benefit unless you get a health assessment.
Minimum wage, my arse.
If you get payed DOLE whilst working how are they going to stop DOLE if you haven't found work?
Find work to keep your DOLE?
This is arse backwards.
Can the state pension be classed as a 'benefit'?
Most recipients have made a lifetime of contributions into the system via NI deductions and therefore are entitled to the payments.
Therefore, not a 'benefit' but a right.
Spot on - it's our own money we've paid in since we were teenagers, not a benefit! The elderly seen as a burden despite their hard work to rebuild UK after WW11.
It’s not our money,our money is paying for the pensioners of today. It’s amazing how so many people think that ni contributions are for your pensions, it is not.
@@jennybaboolal4777 or contributes paid for pensioners while we were working, now workers pay for ours, that's how it's always worked.
Define what 'on benefits' is because child tax credits are benefits and someone working can be getting them and if people weren't taxed so much in the first place they wouldn't need it back; it's a con.
@bipedalspecies2086 Well said and the largest percent is state pension.
@boota1979 state pension is NOT a benefit,unlike other benefits pensions are payed from ni.
I'm with jeni,after 30 yrs full time work I've got
@@stum8374you are WRONG.
According to the DWP, state pension is a benefit, and is included in all its calculations as such.
benefits is any money paid to people by the DWP.
Pointing at a tiny amount of people ripping the system of for a few grand while the entire elite class rips it off for millions each 😂
Bingo! The real bandits are seated in Westminster. Plus their pals in Lombard Street.
If you go into the Asian community and investigate, you will save billions, but that would be classed as racist.
Michele Mone. ?
£ millions !
Dido Harding ?
£ billions ! !
But they're TORIES so that's DIFFERENT !
Don't forget the MP expenses scandal - they rarely remind us of that 😂
Or Rishi's wifes Non Dom tax status she had for years before that was uncovered.....
The majority of those on benefits are in work. Plus they count a pension as a benefit these days.
Maybe if we didn't spin the figures we could actually find the true story. We could even try looking into ethnicity God forbid.
The government subsidy on poor wages is merely encouraging poor wages . Why would the company boss pay you when the government is so willing to do it instead?
16 hours light, unskilled job is not work...is socializing and securing more benefits.
@@user-hv5so6qz9z It must have some value otherwise the firm wouldn't employ them though.
@@tonydalton6756 In my 20 years career, those in 16 hours rarely increased their hours, rarely did an hour overtime taxed work, and they always had an excuse to take a day off. Some value, yes, but the company doesn`t really boom if you do the barely minimum. The system in this country is crazy....forever claiming benefits....The small employers will run away or shut down under the massive pressure. You will be left with the corporations, a digital banking system and UBI. Soon you will be called The United Socialist Kingdom.
@@user-hv5so6qz9z Completely agree with you.
Does this include the scum in the house of commons the expenses they clam who benefits more. Seeing as rock bottom is about 3500 just for living that does not include electric and gas how much does that cost. The rich get more money and power we get bolt.
Two things to know:
1) the state pension is classed as a benefit by the DWP
and
2) whilst £8.6 billion is overpaid by fraud and error, £19 billion goes unclaimed each year!
And as an aside, let's not forget the MPs expenses scandal! And that the entertainment industry, including TV presenters, is infamous for tax evasion and fraud 😂
Source?
You are taxed on a state pension, so it can't be a benefit
The biggest problem we have in this country is that we no longer understand the benefits system. Also, those that work for dwp also do not understand these system. Pensions are now included as benefits as there is now a bill going through parliament to allow hmrc to access anyone on benefits of any kind to access their bank accounts without getting a warrant to do so. As for benefits unclaimed, if you are on the new pension scheme, you are not entitled to claim pension credits. You will also no longer get a widows pension on the state scheme. I was made redundant in the 90’s but couldn’t get unemployment benefit in spite of paying the full stamp, for 6 months as my husband worked for more than 16 hrs a week. As for the entertainment tax fiasco, they applied for tax exemptions that were legal and in place at that time. The hmrc have been made to repay manny that reason. The next tax letters that hmrc will be sending out shortly will be interesting.
@davewright just because you are taxed on the pension doesn’t mean it isn’t a benefit.
Spot on thanks for highlighting the facts
Yet people who actually need it cant get any help
Get her off
Patrick Christys, you are aware that the state pension is classed as a benefit?
So the figure of 53.8% claiming benefits, includes pensioners, unemployed, and disabled. And people working who don't earn enough, so their income is topped up.
And you should note :
"A new research report by Policy and Practice estimates that the total amount of unclaimed income-related benefits and social tariffs is now around £19 billion a year.
Policy and Practice estimates that: £7.5 billion of Universal Credit goes unclaimed by 1.2 million eligible households."
Yes. I've worked over the eligibility for Working tax credit multiple times, but I haven't applied for it, as that will put us on a long wait for Universal Credit, which financially we need to prepare for.
@@Julie-wx2gf and on the subject of unemployment:
From the UK government website:
The overall unemployment rate in 2022 was 4%
3% of white people were unemployed in 2022, compared with 6% of people from all other ethnic groups combined
people from the combined Bangladeshi and Pakistani (9%), Asian ‘other’ (7%) and black (7%) ethnic groups had the highest unemployment rates out of all ethnic groups
white people had the lowest unemployment rates out of all ethnic groups (3%)
Like the majority of people he too probably doesn't class a state pension as a benefit and rightly so
@@everest9707😮
I used to think it was disgusting as well then you hear about millionaires who evvade paying hundreds of thousands in tax
Some of them the MPs who vote for tougher sanctions for those who are already on the lowest incomes.
You need to understand the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance. One is legal, the other is not. They generally are people that are smarter with money, not criminals. Your comment smacks of the politics of envy.
@@grahamcroucher5251 they have more money to be smarter with. Most people can’t avoid tax as it is taken at source.
@@grahamcroucher5251they make the rules , for themselves. Its still shameful, that they do this.
Both things can be legitimate issues worth fighting. They aren't mutually exclusive! We can fight to end tax loopholes for the richest in society, whilst also fighting to stop benefit cheats, and reduce the size of the state.
I’ve worked all my life , was in between jobs as covid hit so had no choice to sign on , after working for 30 years! I was eligible for £30 a fortnight and they took £15 for my csa !!!
I worked in gyms and coaching people in parks.
When 'covid' came they just put all of us PT's out of business. Nobody gave a flying fk.
Csa?
@@clairelivefreeordie2551child support agency
Child Services allowance, I believe. This person is obliged to financially support a child that does not live with them.
Complete bullshit, everyone on benefits gets a Ferrari when you first sing in
I can't blame people for sticking two fingers up at the Government.
If you don't want your money wasted, stop paying Taxes.
I'm more concerned about all our Taxes going on 4 Star Hotels for criminal invaders.
Nah, the criminals here don’t deserve tax payers money
Thirty years ago after a car accident I had a broken hip, leg, arm and fractured spine. Tried to claim only to be told I had too much in the bank. On the next visit I was told to sell my car. They actually came to my home as I was in such a bad way. I sold the car and then had to pawn items to manage until I was able to work. Never had a penny from the state but they have had plenty from me.
Shocking mate I am surprised they didn't say u were fit for work
How you doing now?
Hi, the same as most 50+ working class males in the U.K. I guess.@@jaycloth2197
We should be tough on the fraudsters so we can be more generous to people in genuine need.
Immigrants need our money more than we do. apparently.
The arrogance is their undoing. The stupidity. Posting videos and photos to social media. They should be caught and jailed.
This presenter, whoever he is, has no concept of being poor or disabled and desperately needing these benefits. If he'd just stop butting in and let the people who need benefits speak up, then he might learn something - but it's doubtful.
The penalties are NOT severe enough obviously…..these people make me bloody sick. Jail term should be a given, and assets seized.
And we all know who will have their benefits stopped, the genuine English disabled. Easy targets. Funny how that presenters attitude would change if he had a stroke or an accident and needed help, he would soon find out how hard it is too get help,
The government allows rents not to be limited and then gives support to pay rents. The landlords are lining their pockets at the expense of the tax paying citizens.
The support given by the government for rent is capped.
I don't know when the cap was last changed, but market rents are near to double the cap.
Why evictions are rising.
Yes its a massive scam i know many landlords that are wealthy on the benefits they get from housing.
its the fraudsters that are lining their pockets!! the landlords would be the same off if those people were actually paying for their rent instead of us,, It's the GP's who sign them off so they don't have to do their job properly that are costing us all money and opportunities, place the blame on those responsible not those that are just better off when they are not the same people signing off healthy workers for the sake of keeping appointments to the allotted 10 minutes we all seem to get from a GP appointment, after I had a stroke and applied for job seekers in was the job centre that told me I was too pale to qualify not my landlord
We also have the situation where rent money is paid to the tenant and they in some occasions spend it and the rent goes to hell.
That woman is a waste of space.
Let's get back to the benefits system being a safety net - not a career choice.
PIP helps peopla with disabilities get to and from work such as getting a taxi instead of a bus there if necessary. The vast majoriry (over 99% but closer to 100%) are genuine claimants so don't claim it to avoid having to work, and as I say it helps them to get there and back without having to dip into their take home pay to enable them to afford to travel on an otherwise unaffortable taxi wherw they cannot manage to travel by bus to/from work.
We have to change mindset of country....school.employed.save..get home..marry..babies ..basics found.2 until can support more own purse.no benefits foreigners just compassionate to survive until work or leave government scandals leaving pensioner parents who went on bereavement to live with kids abroad ...left with a pension that stood still from then on yet we give to millions of nil inputers
@@joprocter4573
You don't properly understand disability. Because it's completely wrong of the government to enforce the full JSA conditions on all who suffer from disabilities both mentally and physically as though all can hold down any type job at a 30 mile radius from their house, work full time hours and work at the required pace like a fully fit able bodied person, and even if the jobs on offer they are fully expectsd to apply for are inaccessible or take a a lot longer amount of time to travel from home to the workplace thwn back home than what is considered normal, and then receiving no support at all from the DWP at JCP in the benefot claimant process nor by the employer in the workplace if they actually manage to get employed.
@@dvidclapperton end of these schemes where we find out they back to sq one when employer gets money for one year in hope to employ disabled..no money disabled got no more jobsworths took away workshops
It's far more than that - the rich are really milking it but they don't call them benefits. Here we are picking on the poor before more welfare reform.
Isn't the entertainment industry, like TV presenters, rife with tax fraud 🧐
It's easier for the British public to punch down rather than going for the actual people causing the most damage and hoarding the wealth
My Mum and Dad worked all their lives and in her late 80s when she was unable to live independently I was told that she would have to wait 6months for a place in a care home she was at the time falling at least 3 times a week. I myself found her a care home place and was told in no uncertain way she had her own home and would have to pay for it herself. We had to sell her home and she has used the biggest majority of the money paying for her care she has now been paying every penny of her care for the last 6years and then you get these benefit cheats who think nothing about what they are doing and will have their old age care fully paid because they will have spent every penny they’ve had along the way. It makes my blood boil. Mum and Dad saved all their lives ,never claimed benefits and never as far as I can remember went on holiday. This country has gone down the tubes it’s a disgrace
I'm 70 now and have never claimed benefits or cheated the system. Yet, there were times l was really hard up when young. Seems half the population are supporting the other half, and with our unfettered levels of immigration the situation getting worse.
20 million people are on a particular benefit.
20 million people don't want to be on benefits if possible.
The government has now made it impossible to live on today's wages and they know this.
@@mj9494 So true, years ago it was dad worked paid the bills mortage car etc etc mum looked after the kids, now both need to work and still can't afford owt. summut has gone wrong for sure.
In certain cases you're actively better on benefits then in work especially if you're employed on a zero hour contract. That's 14 years of the Tories policy in action- everything's broken.
@@humptygti exactly by bringing down the wage to a minimum they know that will be a maximum for employers to pay out.
They understand that inflation will cause prices to rise..... Of course and that will mean people will struggle.
So..... They offer people working tax credits for low incomes. Now comes the catch.... Your under control of the govt they say jump you say..... How high.
Get another job they say?.... Why you ask?. Because if we are giving you tax credits we want to see some kind of return.
So now your under the cosh of the pressure just to make ends meat.
You have no life, no savings, no meaningful experiences in life and your mental health goes quicker.
Downward spiral...... People can't take it any more what do they do..... Kill themselves or end up in a bad way.
All thanks to your govt who from cradle to grave are there to look after you.
My dad worked as an engineer all his days.... He retired and had his kids go out to work. My kids are out to work and can't afford to live..... I've had one that's wanted to kill himself.
When did we ever have to get to this stage of working to die, not to live, but die?.
The truth is we have a govt that feels we are the scum of this earth, parliament is nothing more than a boys club of damage.
I've opted out of voting now.
I'm tired of being a Xmas turkey...... Turkeys don't vote for Xmas, they get herded into it.
@@mj9494 mj I've written more.
I wrote that wee part last night when I was shattered but the bigger but today when I had time.
Cheers.
Even your old age pension is a Benefit so thats added to the figures even though you payed National insurance all them years
My immigrant neighbour got every benefit, including 4x4 mercedes valued at £90,000 , for a disabled child. The child went into a home, she kept the car with petrol, insurance still paid by taxpayers
They were robbed. What about a house?
Not fair on genuine people there messing my sister a out shes got cancer😢
Having spent may years working in human resources and occupational health management, i have come across my fair share of people trying to claim benefits/medical retirement due to disability.
Someone claiming not being able to walk or lift anything heavier than a cup of tea, but seen walking down the road carrying heavy shopping bags.
Someone unable to walk without 2 sticks, seen on the roof of a house carrying out property renovations as a business.
People who get out of a car, climb a flight of steps, and standing upright for a security pass, then hobbling along, with 2 sticks, bent over, as soon as they are in the assessment centre.
Someone who claimed to be severely disabled, but able to run a haulage business, lifting, carrying, climbing over the truck and roaming it up.
My mothers severely disabled but could run a haulage business . I've ran a transport business and the actually running of it doesn't require any physical activity , you're sat in a chair on the phone most of the day planning routes and jobs . Are you like my ex that worked as a DWP assessor that came home one day discussing a client over dinner and she couldn't understand how breast cancer could cause referred back pain ?
@@tabularasa7775 probably not claiming you can't walk unaided due to a severe back condition, then loading and unloading a truck and climbing over it to rope it up? I know what I'm talking about, I'm very experienced and well qualified, and the guy was prosecuted for benefit fraud.
And how many people do you see that where genuinely disabled, but had to go to tribunal in order to receive any support
@@AG-mt6mr none. The business I worked for were very lenient and many people received medical retirement that probably weren't bad enough to qualify. I assume you are qualified and experienced in this field to be questioning what I've experienced?
@@parzival1958 I merely replied based upon the info you gave but as long we know and understand you can be disabled or ill and run a business , said disability may prevent you from running that business and breast cancer can cause referred back pain because my experienced and qualified ex that i made an ex because of how her and her colleagues scoffed at the people they scrutinised . So you signed off people that "probably wern't bad enough to qualify" ? Looks a bit naughty that . I also call b.s on the "none" . You simply can't work in that field if you're in it long enough without making decisions or being part of decisions without some unhappy customers that felt the wrong decision was made resulting in tribunal , surely your firm doesn't get it right all the time and of course you have targets guidelines of yes and no's . Sorry to burst your bubble but the NHS is FULL of people qualified and experienced but it is sued once every 40 mins for error and incompetence costing almost 7 billion a year .
There are there problems that cause so many to be on benefits 1. The shortage of housing 2. The huge number of single parents 3. The dependence of commerce on cheap labour. At least two of these are massively exacerbated by allowing large scale unskilled immigrantion.
Don't think it's that easy to claim but these people know the system or they know people who can help then beat the system. I hear of people, through work friends, that have whole family's claiming various disability/housing claims and it makes my blood boil hearing they are all off to Turkey for a holiday and getting their teeth done while I can't afford to get away for a weekend. I think that there are more people doing this than we think and if people can't be bothered to fill out a 40 page document to get FREE help then this is why they get help to fill it in with lies to scrounge of me, I'm paying for this along with the rest of us.
Yep!
Nowhere near everybody who are on disability and housing benefits are off on holiday abroad and getting their teeth done.
The fsr right media exaggerating things as though there's 30% benefit fraud of all typee of benefit going on even though really its less than 1% of that portrayed figure committing benefit fraud
PIP sees the smallest fraction of 1 percent of people claiming it committing benefit fraud.
This is typical virtue signalling by the far right press to try to awing votes back towards the tories in time for the general election. Sadly the gullible and the stupid fall for this nonsense, and there are far too many of them able to cast their votes at general election.
They should investigate claims payment over sea ,Bulgaria, Romania and all the rest
I recently became disabled after cancer treatment and I always feel like I’m not truly entitled.
These people make every actually disabled persons life harder. I lost my career to this. I wish I was my old self still.
Exactly my feelings and situation from a bike accident.
Disrespectful much mr Christy dont slag people off just cos u are fortunate enough to still be employed ,this country shafted millions of people during Covid which the media had a hand in so get off ya high horse mate.tut.
well if the government paid real wages the people would work over claiming but when the average man or women works and takes home 300 pounds for 40 hours ya better off claiming!
It would help employers to pay fair wages, if they didn't have an uncontrolled supply of imported cheap labour!
and thats the reason the wages are crap ! its all planned to keep the poor poor@@everest9707
I've lived in this country for 57 out of my 62 years and never had a penny off the state apart from a couple of weeks between finishing exams and getting my first job. Frankly it appalls me that sooo many people seem to see life on benefits as a lifestyle choice and the state encourages it. I gather that we don't have enough benefit claimants of our own so we import them from overseas. Get this, a doctor can be recruited from India on a tip top salary, at face value a net benefit to this country if a loss to his own more needy country. He can then bring all his extended family over and they will be supported out of the public purse. THIS IS LUNACY!!!
DEI recruitment means you will always be employing people who do not merit the role it will always weaken the organisation. Look at any any government department or council for details.
I'm registered for Universal Credit and in the last 5 months I have been entitled to £0 but still can't cover the basics as a single income household!
Try telling them you’re Muslim
Go on holiday to France and come back on a rubber dinghy.
That’s because you are working too many hours. You have to play the system. Cut your hours and find a little income stream they don’t need to know about
Work 16 hours only or you will lose everything
You get punished for going to work
@@lewisdowsett8390 I work 24 hours and get some benefits, granted not as much as I would if I did 16 hours. But it means I don’t pay tax and it gives me 4 whole days a week to be financially inventive
To be fair, water-skiing isn't actually walking. You can water ski in a wheelchair ffs.
It brings to mind me parking our disabled adapted vehicle in a disabled parking space outside an ice-rink in Sheffield. And hearing people tutting as the walked past. "Huh! He's got a blue badge and yet he's going ice-skating? Broken Britain.. etc. etc. etc..."
To then whizz past that same doofus on the ice 15 minutes later, pushing my non-walking, non-talking, daughter's wheelchair in front of me as we happily skated around. Wheelchairs work on ice people! In fact, I'd consider them far safer on the ice than actual ice skates. THINK! Before you judge.
You can but it’s quite clear by these pictures that this wasn’t the case 🤷♀️. They used their legs 👍. I know someone who claims. Uses a mobility scooter when it suits, but will then get up on a cat walk in six inch heels dressed in a homemade volcano outfit made from chicken wire with no bother 😂
Just entering the ice skating venue is not automatically committing benefit fraud. What if the blue badge holder is incontinent and desperate for the toilet and can't hold it for long and there's an accessible toilet in there, and uae it, then come out of the bulding afterwards? If they've not gone ice skating in the building, then they've not committed benefit fraud. Incontinence entitles those people to a blue badge to park in the Disabled parking space.
Only by the act of ice skating in the building would the person with a blue patking badge be committing benefit fraud. But cannot be proven they are just because they've entered the building. Of course some claiming disability benefits will commit benefit fraud, but it's not widespresd up and down the country what the tories and far right media are claiming. It's not in sxcess of 20% of af 30%
But you don't need to be confined to a wheelchair and not being able to walk at all to be genuinely entitled to claim mobility disability benefits. The 20 metres rule on PIP is continued bursts short of 20 metres struggling to walk in a lot of pain and/or in severe discomfort to receive enhanced rate of mobility.
We need to get these people off benefits to free up more money for the MILLIONS of illegal immigrants.
First thing that should be looked at is the benefits claims for more than one wife by members of a particular religion.
Single mums milking the hell out of it while fathers on the street homeless and fighting for access whilst on child support !! Fair ?
yes having babys is career now, free house , free money , no council tax, benefit britain. any other country u have a kid u pay for it urself , how it should be
I know many people who are fraudulently claiming disability 🤷♀️. And there’s my son receiving job seekers in UC (still waiting for the disability element 5 months on. And being told that 3 months will not be backdated). Yet he’s disabled from birth and has never walked or talked his entire life let alone water sports. He has however been to Florida. Thanks to ‘make a wish’ and not through fraud! These people 😡
Benefit cheats cost taxpayer, £1 billion a year. Unclaimed benefits are estimated to be £16 billion a year. How much does tax loopholes cost the economy. and tax, loop holes for the Rich and big business.
Exactly.
Just look at siemens of late, building windfarms is now bad business.😂
Even with all the subsidies they get.
The few percent of very rich pay more tax that keeps the country going.
@@RJ-ql6ff would that include those who have obtained money from faulty PPE. These are same people who keep most of the money offshore.
Both things can be legitimate issues worth fighting. They aren't mutually exclusive! Lets close the tax loopholes AND stop benefit cheats!
Where I live I know at least 6 people who are raking in a fortune on disability benefits,every penny is spent on alcohol and drugs,therefore the poor taxpayers are funding alcohol and drugs,majorly shocking,
I know loads of people that have never worked in their life but claim everything going and have a better life than me I’ve worked all my life from leaving school over 50 years
makes me sick i know someone the same, he earns the same as i do, on pip , keeps the housing money and stays with friends, uc , he gets 1600 a month. i get the same for working 48 hours aweek. his life is one big holiday
Well the bit at the end with Jenny was very misleading, those figures include pensioners and the majority of those figures are people already in full time work but still cant pay their bills so need a little help, working couples still need help with things like child benefit or whatever its called now, a lliving wage is needed, the cost of living needs to be kept under control along with energy companies who are clearly taking the you know what, wholesale fossil fuel prices could crash through the floor but the public wont see any reduction in cost, government has failed the public.
And I bet that the top ten supermarkets will be making massive profits...
I suppose it would be interesting to know how many sympathetic doctors are writing the script.
Go after the likes of Mone who stole millions .
Why have this woman on ...... she's talking rubbish ...
Why?
It's definitely not easy to get benefits, my wife has MS and was denied benefits as she was deemed not disabled enough even though she needs a wheelchair to get about, we had to fight hard to win the appeal, my brother has one leg and is deemed not disabled enough, the people who asses claims need to be replaced with people who actually know what they are talking about
It's by design, they want to make it difficult so more people are forced into work. Same with UC the game is to make it as unpleasant as possible and cause financial stress so low paid work seems like the better option.
@@hammerofolympia3716 I'd agree with that as the people who do the assessments are not qualified, plus they assessed my wife over the phone which is ridiculous as some of her symptoms as physical.
PIP is not exclusively an out of work benefit.
It's not as simple as just asking Can You Work? Can you manage to get to work or even access it. Climbing up steep hill and stairs to access work may either be impossible to do or impossible to manage in a reasonable amount of time even if you can actually capable of doing the job. But the DWP when it comes to UC or ESA and they say you are fit to work, so even if you don't apply for the job because you can't manage to get there and then back, and likewise for various other jobs where access is at least almost as difficult or impoasible the DWP will turn around and say that you've done nowhere near enough to find a job because they deem you fit to work because. How do the DWP come to the conclusion thst you are fit to work when your disability means that getting there is impossible, or it's impossible to get there without having to give yourself a ridiculous 3 hours for a short journey leaving home at 6am for a 9am atart? The same problem returning home means you aren't back home until 8pm. This is the ridiculous nonsense of these tory welfare benefit laws. Really it's complete nonsense all for the sake of getting people off benefits and into work. But shockingly peooplw think people with mental health diaabilities are not really diaabled and think because they can't do do much work as people with no mental health diaabilities that they're just lazy.
Disgusting and disgraceful..
You do know that Paralympians with Cerebral Palsy and other motability issues can win medals for cycling. But they cannot walk or walk very badly and receive the top rate of mobility. It's easier to bicycle/tricycle then to walk a short distance for some disabled people.
I have more of a problem with paying 8.9 million a day on immigrants which leds to benefit because people think why should I work to pay for immigrants to sit at home watching TV the amount of people I know that have stopped working for that reason
It s a lot more thanfigure you mention, I dont believe govt lies
Barnett is just another demonstration of what is wrong with what used to be our country.
Meanwhile the real people who are ill and have crippling illnesses are being taken off benefits and denied the help and support they are entitled to. I have real problems with my breathing to mention just one problem and struggle to get help with mobility. I wish I was fit enough to go water skiing or be able to dance to Michael jackson .. These smooth criminals should be put in jail and not given the suspended sentences and maybe others would see it as a deterant.
Nearly everyone knows someone who’s scamming the system.
There maybe a case for 54% of people needing some help in terms of financial assistance, as the banks and Governments alike, have conspired to make life so bad for people.
However, if 54% of the people in this nation are on some kind of benefit, then the Exchequer will not be able to support that kind of generosity for long - it is simple arithmetic - if outgoings are more than income, the result is misery. (Acknowledgements to Charles Dickens).
Those who are not working cannot be given money without conditions - why not get them cleaning up canal banks, or public recreation areas, parks, hedgerows in the countryside, etc? There can never be "something for nothing". That is lunacy. It is also why millions are heading straight for this gullible country - we give them lots of something for their nothing!
Patrick Christys, aren't many in the entertainment industry, including TV presenters, those who commit fraud on their tax😂
What about the politician cheats claiming all that free cash?
People like this make me sick. Think l have to claim I'm sick because of them.
Jenny or what ever is deluded. Not a clue 🙄
And here's me, worked since I was 16, I'm 49, never had anything from the State. Now going for an appointment for drop foot this afternoon after a year's wait, unable to do my job with no help. What a country.
I'm a pensioner and that means I'm on benefits..... so why did I pay into a pension fund all my life? And I am paying MORE tax year on year for what?
The old age pension is not a benefit, pensioners paid in the money for their retirement, so it's been paid in.
Work for welfare
Pick litter 30 hrs a week for a check and free housing
It's superb that we have GB News here to hold ordinary British people to account for relatively minor, isolated acts of fiddling while completely ignoring the real corruption that the oligarchs get up to. Hip hip hurrah for GB News, the People's Channel(TM).
Both things can be legitimate issues worth fighting. They aren't mutually exclusive! But people like you will piss and moan if legitimate criticism is aimed at anyone other than the class/group you hate the most. That makes you a bigot btw.
I know these silly people make you 😅😅🤣😅
Stopped watching it know just see these clips as it’s just like the bbc
Spoken like a true/potential freeloader. In the quest of keeping benefits available for yall lazy idiots, yall have opened a pipeline for more malicious immigrants to come and run down the system. Congratulations
Benefits fraud is not isolated occurrence. It is basically a lifestyle adopted by most British females who hate working.
EVERYONE on benefits should be made to pick litter or crops
I heard Stephen Hawking did a few marathons and fun runs too. The level of abuse is shocking.
i know people who claim as single parents whilst living with a working partner, when it is reported you are told we will look into it, they own a car and have holidays abroad, nothing is done i am related to some of them.
That is happening alot
Some are on fiddles end of get them back to work
I take it he realises that people in full time minimum wage work need benefits to pay bills because of the high cost of living, also pensions are included in that stat so does he want pensioners going back to work?
'Are you seriously telling me 54% of this country really need to be on benefits?! Come on now, it's clearly far too easy to sign on nowadays...'
54% are not on unemployment benefits, which is the anchor's logical fallacy. This is deliberate misrepresentation by the anchor who ends the interview because he's been caught out.
Pension is a benefit. If you have children, you can claim child benefit and that's not means tested. If you live alone, you're entitled to a 25% Council Tax reduction. If you're on low pay, you're entitled to top up in the form of UC. Maybe employers should pay a decent wage.
This is GB News punching down. Why not highlight tax avoidance and evasion by the rich and corporations.
edit. The anchor is Patrick Christys, seemingly a Tory and Daily Mail contributor.
god gb news is shite these days
Refusing to pay your council tax is swindling the genuine benefit recipients.
Council tax is a scam. They don't use all the money for local service, but it is sent abroad on woke schemes and worse.
@@michaeloconnor9465Your funny.
Council tax has nothing to do with the benefit system at all... council tax goes to local councils to pay for essential services like garbage collection. Benefits come out of the national funds, paid for by things such as VAT, income tax, corporation tax, import tax, and so on.
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@@Build_Secrets So your're saying Council Tax Support doesn't count as a Benefit?.
What's worse is that many who truly deserve benefit support especially those with PIP now have greater stress worrying that they will be scoped out as a result, doesn't help them get better whatsoever!
The system should be looking to make a better investigatory board to insure real support to those who have genuine difficulties and that the dishonest are truly sanctioned and put in their place.
Exactly. I ve gone downhill and will never be who I was with poor mental and worsened physical health due to severe issues ..add to that the stress of publicised threats by govt and where I m in a room in tiny place where police called around 25 times in year and half .. but am proud that worked whole life well over pension reqs if you count 20 hr 7 day weeks and the rest. My v limited savings went on helping myself instead of benefits which have only recently claimed at 63.
Unfortunately whenever they have a crack down like this a lot of genuine claimants have their benefits withdrawn too
are you sponsored by the tories to spout your rhetoric! its a tiny % of benefit Claimants who do that! most people on benefits are in work.
And yet the DWP is legally allowed to take £128546 from my compensation package because otherwise it would be of benefit to me as I am receiving disability benefits. The DWP, defence minister and veterans minister failed to respond to my letters and no one is willing to offer any help
I am a pensioner aged 75 yet I am classed as on benefits.
Many people choose not to increase their work hours as they would lose their benefits, which in turn allow them access to other freebies. A 2 parent family each earning £30,000 with 1 child can claim child tax credits. How can that be right, it’s just a con, that’s more than double my wage. No one earning £60,000 needs benefits.
Not everybody who is employed can do work at a fast or rapid pace. And not everybody who is employed can work long hours and take more than 1 job of employment either.
Working part time and at their own pace is the best many who actually can work if they can actually access the workplace and lesve home and get back home at a reasonable time can do.
How can someone receive over a half a million pounds in benefits,can someone please explain that to me?
That figure includes people on pensions, people who are in work but require a top up because their income is not enough to live on, and children with various disabilities
22.6 million people claimed some combination of DWP benefits in February 2023 (of the 17 benefits included in these statistics). Of these:
12.8 million were of State Pension Age (including those in receipt of their State Pension)
9.2 million were of Working Age
620,000 were under 16 (and in receipt of Disability Living Allowance as a child)
Her figures are well out there are 67.33 millionish in Britain 22.6 million are on some sort of benefit which is around 33.6% so around a 3rd not more than half of which 19% are claiming state benefit so 14.6% are claiming other benefits, many who are actually in work and claiming top up benefits.
I used to be embarrassed to admit the fact that I've been relying on disability benefits for approximately 10 years now. But now I feel the need to stand up against the people who often like to belittle those suffering with anxiety related illnesses and refuse to take them seriously.
I served in the British Army from 1996 until 2009 and have seen active service in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, after leaving the Army I went straight into employment driving a petrol tanker and was fine for a couple of years. Things changed when I heard the news that my mate who served with me had taken his own life, a few months later another lad I served with took his own life aswell. The first mates death effected me but the second lads death has had an unbearable effect on my mental health, as I was with him in Afghanistan at the moment he had to make a split second decision that the consequences would never be forgotten. Im now overwhelmed with anxiety and I'm always questioning myself about why I let my mate take that decision and why he was left to carry the burden ultimately by himself, I can't look myself in the mirror anymore and I can barely get out of the house as I have a constant feeling of shame and im overwhelmed with paranoia that others view me with the shame.
£540,000 ..In benefits ..ffs ..It would take me 17 working years to earn that
Half of them are scammers
The majority of them are claiming the state pension - yes it is classified as a benefit by the DWP and treated as such in their figures.
So you are completely wrong about "half of them are scammers".
The government and some organisations want to demonize those on benefits, and distract you from the frauds they commit.
Remember all the members of parliament who were caught fiddling their expenses? You don't hear about that these days.
Bigger jail sentences are needed 😮
I doubt that's the problem.
The fact that people seem to get suspended sentences, or no prison, is probably the issue.
Probably doesn't help that our prisons are too full, with all those thieving overseas doctors, scientists, and engineers that came to enrich us😏
I worked for 50+ without a break to get my pension benefits.
You see people walking with walking sticks on holiday. Next minute they are on the dance floor. In future im going to call them out.