When the rent for a single room amounts to 1200 and the monthly salary is only 1800, it raises concerns about the feasibility of sustaining a livelihood.
@landrover4483 The primary issue faced by both parties is their acceptance of housing as a commodity. This is a significant injustice, as housing should be considered a fundamental necessity of life, not a marketable asset.
@@landrover4483 I havent worked since i was 27yo, currently i am getting £1500 / month from the benefits and i dont pay anything for my flat as its already paid off, the only thing i pay are council tax (discounted) and the factors which is around £150 every quarter. I do side gigs like selling stuff online which sometime i could make additional £500 on top. If i am very lucky £1000 which i always save for holidays to benidorm or magaluf.
I was labelled disabled after an accident at work. Being treated like a criminal and being forced into poverty through the benefits system nearly broke me. I am getting punished for having a disability and have nearly ended myself several times due to stress and anxiety never mind learning to walk again. They strip you of hope.
Please never give up; many people are fighting this system legally. This program is to trigger and unhinged people further, and there is an agenda behind all, as I put in other comments here.
Here we go again . The real issue is cost of living, energy costs, and poor levels of education. Go ahead and smash the unworkable, but it won't change a thing. We can't compete with emerging countries, because our housing costs are too high, energy costs for manufacturing is too high. This won't change the trajectory. Wages, cost of living and education. Otherwise your picking on the weakest again. Get the multi national tax dodger instead, just a thought
And my bonus winge, we can't compete with Brazil, Indonesia, India, china or any other countries who have low wages, low energy and low housing costs. Keep on day dreaming
@@oneplot5132 Need a global minimum wage. It'll never happen but would create equal opportunities and would massively reduce imports of most manufactured goods.
@@MrNelford So, the unemployed are an effect on the shortage of housing and price of energy? OK, Mr Economist, do explain exactly how. I do like a laugh.
Liz Kendall’s winter fuel hypocrisy after claiming up to £350 a month in energy bills Cabinet minister, who lives in a £4m luxury London mansion, axed payments to pensioners despite having her own energy bills in her second home paid for by taxpayer. That is what politicians are like that is the norm.
The problem is low paid jobs. Having created a society of working poor through low paid jobs and zero hours contracts, it is not surprising that some people fall back on Welfare.
It's not "fall back on welfare" it's stress of having a low paid/ zero hours job and worrying how you're going to keep a roof over your head/car on the road/feed your family, etc.. Welfare, despite shitehawk Fraser's assertion, does not pay well, it's basically subsistence
I agree with you, it has been like this for too long now, I remember both of my parents being in work but their wages was too low, caused a lot of rows and we was living in the poverty. It doesn't add up.
Never hurt your back and neck, it ruins everything. Muscle weakness in both arms and legs, and pins and needles and numbness in pain on a daily basis so you get put on stronger pain killers because normal pain killers don't stop the pain and in my case the stronger pain killers don't help me much either. Need even stronger pain killers. I have Cervical Spondylitis, Osteoarthritis, 3 Prolapsed dics, Gallstones, Adult Scoliosis crushing my organs, Lungs, Heart ♥, Ribs, Stomach, Bowels and Bladder. IBS, Breathlessness every single day i have numbness and need back surgery. I also have hearing problems and poor eyesight, I am short sighted but my medication has made it even worse, because have blurred eyesight and my eye go out of focus and I get white flashing in my left eye and had countless accidents with my left eye and have something pressing on my optic nerve. Get knee pain in both knees and they crack and lock. Have breathing problems because of Scoliosis and have bad chest infections all year round and I have tried asthma inhaler but did not help me and get Bronchitis a lot have chest infections all year round. If i try to do anything strenuous i have to stop due to breathless and feel like I am going to have an heart attack and it is very scary.
@@paulhealy1 no one in India is on welfare and people are surviving, it’s time you followed the footsteps of the people you once colonised and controlled and then the Hindu community came and conquered. The foundations have been laid get the British people off benefits and into work. Only a true English 🏴 man can do this, and a party for the Greater Britain 🇬🇧 Star man and Labour
This is the problem with the UK. Worried about a few thousands pounds here and there or some minor MP expenses. Meanwhile.....£5bn is lost to Government loan fraud or £100bn wasted on some NHS IT project and nobody cares.
@@lmn6440 Why is it a wrong ? Do you feel they are overpaid for the role they do ? If you want a good quality government then you must pay well. Why become an MP when you can get a job in the banking sector on 200k+ per year ...
This administration is putting many families in difficult situations. A lot of people are financially struggling to live, put a roof over their head and put food on the table. Things are getting worse these days, if you don't find means of multiplying your money you might wake up a day to realise you didn't plan well for yourself and family…
I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don’t know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate and stocks..
I’ve been diligently working, saving and contributing towards early retirement and financial freedom, but since covid outbreak, the economy so far has caused my portfolio to underperform, do I keep contributing to my 401k or look at alternative sectors to meet my goals?
Understanding your financial needs and making effective decisions is very essential. If I could advise you, you should seek the help of a financial advisor. For the record, working with one has been the best for my finances...
@@rougeur How can one find a verifiable financial planner? I would not mind looking up the professional that helped you. I will be retiring in two years and I might need some management on my much larger portfolio. Don't want to take any chances.
How can one find a verifiable financial planner? I would not mind looking up the professional that helped you. I will be retiring in two years and I might need some management on my much larger portfolio. Don't want to take any chances.
True - Gran's home was £1,ooo - and I've paid over £66,666 rent for the same house type and they want £66,666 more - my nephew had to pay £66,666 for basic exams in Accountancy
@@gphilipc2031 Success has many fathers while duoligarchy controlled plutocratic government[s] printing Monopoly money love AI that 90 percent of the time is CEOs (Cremating Embalmed Orphans)
Healthy food is increasingly expensive, and the government is targeting farmers who produce that food. Water companies poison us and the environment. King Charles is on the highest benefits.
You can earn 12k tax free if you work full-time You can earn 16k+ tax free on welfare It 👏is 👏Bullshit 👏 Tax free allowance should be the same as welfare benefits
@@joannaz9398 That's really not a lot if all those things you enumerated work as intended. Question is, do any of those things work for the average Brit? Probably not, therefore all of those things are incredibly expensive.
Exactly, I think too many people think normal worry and stress is "mental health", life is stressful, you have to cope with it. Not working I believe makes people unhappy, they have no purpose in life.
There are lots of jobs.There are many different types of jobs. The problem is most employers don't want to hire people with health problems. Or don't allow flexible working.
Exactly. A lot of jobs are not even worth applying for….rubbish wages, awkward hours, pathetic public transport at rip off prices making the commute sheer hassle and then you give at least a third of your wage to a greedy landlord so they can live in luxury in early retirement……it just seems that the whole system is a scam😡
@@alexs6770 There are less than 1 million job vacancies in the UK right now. Unless the government can create literally millions of jobs in the next year or so, they're going to be forcing benefit claimants to find jobs that simply don't exist.
@@abstractdrumz Do you hear yourself? In many countries there is 0 jobs and people find ways to grind out a living. If more jobs were covered, companies would grow, employing more people to create more jobs. Why should people that work their butts off in terrible conditions to earn less than the many benefits scroungers, have to put up with this pathetic parasite fest?
Im 35 and have depression, anxiety, insomnia and PTSD. Struggled with it my whole life but I still have went to work everyday. Not everyone can do that but alot more can.
Plenty of people claiming disability benefits also work too, either part or full time. Those that cannot and rely on benefits, majority are legitimate. Fix the mental health services, ability to afford housing and pay liveable wages and more people would be more open minded to return or enter the work force.
Put nonsense in your brain get brain problems. Welfare is the most harmful thing (except real disable people) in society. According to ONS 50% of people living in social housing in working age, don't work!
For sick and disabled people to work there needs to be employers willing and able to hire and pay them. They never talk about that side of the equation.
I think about the treatment my mum received from the system, worked her entire life and suffered with gallstones in her late 50s. Whilst waiting for the removal she was in and out of hospital with acute attacks. What I can only describe was how she felt so stigmatized and bullied by the job centre for being temporarily out of work. She eventually went back after surgery into a 0 hour contract job to make ends meet. She's still in this position 10 years later as a care worker. She's treated like rubbish, no sick pay or holiday pay, she's terrified to go back to universal credit after her experience. It is such a broken system, and it's frustrating to think this is stigmatized. 0 hours is one of the most disgusting things to happen to the UK job system.
Every worker is entitled to holiday and sick pay by right, even if they are on zero hour contract, part time contract or 40 hour week. Holiday pay is proportional to the hours you work i.e. if you work 40 hours/week you'll get holiday pay of 40 hours and if you're on part time i.e. 20 hours then your holiday pay will be 20 hours a week. If your mother is not paid holiday pay then she needs to put in a written grievance and failing that take the employer to an industrial tribunal. If you take your employer to a tribunal then they will sack you 100% !!!
Look into MPs Channel 4. My MP, Paula Barker, for example claims over £250,000 in expenses every year!!!! Plus many MPS have 2, 3 or 4 extra jobs paying them vast sums of money. How can they possibly do the job as an MP properly with all the extra jobs? Yet people who are ill get vilified for claiming benefits they are eligible for. (Incidentally, I don't claim these benefits). The NHS is on its knees, get that sorted it will have a positive knock on effect on people claiming. Plus what about all the BS jobs out there these days. Who wants to do a rubbish job with no job security regardless of their age. I used to be a supply teacher and got offered work recently. The agencies are offering the same money I was on in 2008, how is that right?
In real terms, we are ALL earning the same or less than we were in 2008. Except the richest 1%. They're 'earning' about 40x what they were in 2008. I wonder if there is a connection between the two?
Yes it does seem that a lot of MPs are pretty well off. I have great respect for Rupert Lowe, who donates his parliamentary salary to good causes in his constituency every month. He also has excellent ideas for governance.
Nhs is not on its knees, doesn't matter how much money will put into it will never be enough. Getting money is one thing. Managing them, second. You know why doctors cannot see more patients? Because they need to fill in stupid and useless documentation. That should be secretary work. Doctors should treat their patients. MEANWHILE in the UK you can have million gp appointments, no one will offer you full blood check. So you are booking one appointment after another, taking medicine after medicine, and no one will ever treat the problem, they will treat symptoms. In most cases one blood examination should help you to find the source of your problem, for example checking vit d deficiency, iron, CRP, sugar or cortisol level. It's also cheap. But what for, it's better to book million useless appointments and let your gp to fill millions of useless documents. Every single surgery I've been patient with in my town works this way. So pay for the NHS, more and more, they will waste more and more, nothing will change anyway. Same with physiotherapy, my severely disabled daughter got 1.5 hours per month, my pediatrician just laughed after hearing this fact.this system is creating disabilities rather than preventing and treating them. And it is structural rather than financial problem.
I agree. I have a level 3 diploma in childcare and 17+ years experience, last year I was offered minimum wages, and the management would pinch money out of people's checks, treat employees and the children in case like sc*m.
You can pay people 50 pound an hour it wont help - inflation will rise by a similar amount- Imagine you are a hairdresser and are mandated to pay you staff 50 an hour - you will be out of business tommorow unless you rise your prices to cover it. The low wages reflect low productivity and money sucked into the public sector which produces half of what the private does for the same amount.
@Smith-n7n Probably none. The country is in a death spiral. It needs hard medicine which will never occur in a democracy- 7pct of the working age population on long term sickness - vs < 1pct 40 years ago. The UK is screwed as is alot of the west,
Yup, but actually teach "home economics" where cooking and budgeting were taught so that there would be less reliance on take aways and microwaveable "food"..
You have to wonder how many peoole are stuck on benefits as the NHS can't or won't properly treat chronic physical and mental health issues in a timely manner.
@marknewellmusic same there isn't a specialist for my condition in the whole of east London and hospital that do have specialist aren't accepting patients outside their borough, when i tried to take out health insurance to go private I was told they wouldn't accept me or pay of treatments if I have an existing chronic condition so ive just been self managing this whole time🙃
Living conditions are tied to it a lot of the time imo. I feel a lot of the people suffering from mental health illness aren't actually unwell, it's just their body processing being unsafe in an appropriate way. Like if someone's parent passes? The way they feel and act after can look a lot like depression... but it isn't. It has a clear cause, if not for the cause they wouldnt be down. When people aren't paid a wage that lets them live in a stable way, free from fear - of course they're anxious, on edge and mentally ill. It's not something a course of CBT will treat. There needs to be massive systemic change.
The incompetence of politicians for decades has caused this crisis.They allowed highly paid skilled jobs to disappear over 40 years to be replaced with minimum wage jobs in warehouses.
Added to that they import everything now, if there's ever another war the UK is F, ed, at least in the ww2 we had shipbuilding, coal mining, steel industry, heavy manufacturing industry, and farmers. had skilled experts in many different forms of making and building stuff. we had tons of apprenticeships for young people in jobs they were interested in right up until the late 70's. Then both the Tories and Labour started to sell everything off to foreign investors, who now own all our utility companies, and transport, with the promise they were going to invest and update what they bought for the 21st century. instead, we still have an aging electrified network, victorian pipework, and over-inflated tickets for services that never run on time. They did nothing and lined their pockets and paid massive amounts to their shareholders and CEOs at taxpayers' expense. Massive unemployment in the North, Scotland, and Wales where there are no jobs now, and no prospects for the young except a life on the dole. or piss poor min wage jobs where even if they worked there 20 years will still be paid min wage. Even the work programs they send people on, where they are told that after they have been trained there's a job for them, the employer just gets rid of them after teaching them nothing and replaces them with someone else, after a year, easy money for them and next to free labor. but it makes the government books look good.
The politicians have not been incompetent. They have been very good at their job.....which was to drain the place dry right in front of everyone's faces and give an entire country's wealth to their mates. The Tories are actively evil. They enact policies which they know will result in misery and death. They constantly lie and con people while they are slipping the knife in. And they ALWAYS leave a broken society for Labour to clean up. Just wait a few years and the same people whose lives were ruined by The Tory Party will be singing the praises of a new "Compassionate Conservative" leader.
A friend asked for mental health treatment, counselling, their GP kept ignoring them. Finally 5 YEARS LATER they were told they are now at the top of the list 😂
A friend was looking for help for problems he had kept getting told it’s anxiety related and given pills 3 years later his been told he has a type of cancer borderline stage 3 so the symptoms was not anxiety lol 🤡
I keep getting referred to computerised CBT.... for psychotic depression..... and SSRI's, that I've already got a long history of trying, they don't prevent my symptoms.
@@piddlydiddly Sorry to hear that. Almost sounds like they are getting you treat yourself. If it's not helping please go back to your GP you deserve better.
@alexs6770 what is borderline hilarious is my GP surgery don't appear to know much about my medical history, only discovered this by the app. I've been agoraphobic in various ways, currently the worst at leaving my home drugged only 3 time this year for medical things. End of last year after a pip reassessment that took 12 months to complete pip contacted my GP surgery, concerned for my welfare. The bright spark GP over the phone refered me to the online talking therapies for a whole 6 sessions to cure my by then and now worst ever almost completely housebound agoraphobia will 6 sessions over the internet. Well since in person at home cbt and graded exposure has previously never fixed it, I guess let's try 6 online sessions instead lol. Course on completing those 6 sessions I apparently got magically cured so they removed the active housebound agoraphobia status. Which came after the GP filling out the pip form said i could travel to a medical, even though I couldn't even get down the road to the surgery. That's what happens when you have 15 GPs and locums caring for you over the telephone. They haven't a Scooby who you are or what is even wrong with you. I'm currently trying to get them to fix my medical records.
If the GP and medical system got improved more people might actually be treated correctly and helped, whether they can cure or not. What you can't do is fix someone using the wrong tools then blame the patient for failure, which is effectively the current system.
Look at the actual jobs, they are terrible, long hours, no breaks, no pay for overtime. You don't know what's going on out there. My daughter works twelve hour shifts, mostly nights she is slowly going downhill she is getting ill. Try properly regulating the workplace again. Don't blame the ill people and let the employers off their bad practices. Sorry Channel 4 this is terrible, just paying lip service to government prejudice about who's to blame about the Increases.
@@user-vu9es1we8y Any other European country has Unions which aren't legislated against and that co-operate with the company for the common good. Also, as I checked years ago, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland have never heard of "Continental Shifts", and when told what they were the common answer was "our Union would never allow this". And too bloody right!
Are you seriously doing a doc on poor people trying to survive? Why not do a doc on TAX DODGERS AND TRUST MANAGERS??? The fact that people with money are withdrawing it from taxation and hiding it from banks how are you helping? We have no NHS or support system. Everything costs double last year. People living in fear and persecution on waiting lists for the non diagnostic services. Name and shame the billionaire tax dodgers who are the true paracites of the UK.
Agree with you, pay has been too low and it seems kept low for years. But the profits keep on rolling in. Thinking of companies like Amazon. Tax dodgers yes.
This opinion is insane. These billionnaires are the ones who pay a huge amount of tax that is paying for the benefits. Our economy is not falling apart because a few rich people hiding a bit here and there. Its falling apart because such a huge number of people only take from the economy and never give. You're mentality is exactly the problem and why we are in this mess. Its way to easy to keep blaming people who have money and are not giving enough to the poor, this is not a solution to anything.
Imagine if you will, having constant heavy menstrual bleeding with no more than 3 days reprieve a month, unable to leave the house at times because of blood loss, becoming severely anaemic as a result, being placed on a waiting list for gynae as an emergency referral and waiting 18 months to be seen even as an emergency, in the meantime you’ve lost your job due to sickness and being unable to physically manage it anymore. SORT HEALTHCARE OUT FIRST!
I absolutely agree. My GP lost my referrals for the last 2.5 years, I bleed heavily daily too due to hemorrhoids, I saw them twice about it and I was thrown a cream and suppositories at. A few months ago I ended up in the hospital with IV drips for anaemia, and I suspect I might have to go back soon, to avoid fainting and maybe hitting my head in the fall.
I got into a situation were I have Fibromyalgia with severe widespread pain im into new jobs then unemployed then into another new job then unemployed ect.... its very hard to manage, ive become fully dependent on strong painkillers like Pregabalin and Codeine but I have successfully been employed for some time and remarkably only had 2 days sick in the past year, the original OP comment really hit me hard because I know what it is like when you cannot make it out the door and your employer cannot cope with you being absent a high number of times, healthcare should be fixed first, painkillers stop working after some time and I will end up with a high sickness level once again. Don't send sick people to work, get their health right and get them somw support first because it's not fair on them or the employer
1.) Government prints money 2.) House prices and other assets inflate 3.) Salaries fail to keep up with inflation 4.) Life becomes unaffordable for the average worker 5.) Worker burns out and goes on sick leave 6.) Becomes depressed and stays on sick leave indefinitely. Meanwhile rich people with assets become insanely rich doing nothing.
@@STEVOSTHEBOSS Exactly yes. But if you're on benefits or working a low paying job where do you get the money to buy the assets? Inflation is an invisible modern day slavery people don't even realize they're trapped in.
A lot of people on long term disability benefits are living with horrendous mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and severe depression…….often there is no cure for these people and it is cruel to try and make these people go out and work in a normal job……maybe if the government looked at tax dodging by big companies and corporations people would realise that it’s NOT the disabled and mentally ill who are a drain on the economy.
Why should working people support people who have never and will never contribute anything to society. Let their families pay for it. Britain is a socialist state at this point.
It’s called neoliberal capitalism. Kings, politicians, corporations, mafia don’t pay taxes and allowed to make unlimited amounts of profits. While people like us have to pay taxes more each year while our income reduces by inflation. The bank I was working for after paying the missold insurance police’s, stop paying us bonuses and pay rises stoped in 2009 while the banks profits were soaring. The banks sell us mortgages at 7 percent, paying less than 1 percent for savings. Every 10 years, the government pumps our money to the banks which are not following the rules set by the government so that they don’t collapse. I get no service from monopolies like energy and water companies. I registered a complaint, no one cares.
Your ignorance is beyond stupidity and your failure to see reality is the reason the UK is a failed state I tried to help 35 years ago by providing over 1200 full time, well paid jobs and recruitment was near Impossible as almost every candidate wanted every other Thursday off to sign on and to be paid in cash I was, and remain, disgusted by the growth of the benefit state so much so that I sold up and left a long time ago and have never looked back as in most countries the people are better off working than being unemployed - unlike the UK where benefits pay much more than even well paying jobs - especially sickness benefits
Do Starbucks Mcdonalds pay any tax ehat about entire govt and predecessor..did Bj and the like not embezzle cheat ask for million gbp pensions and get legsl aid! Plenty of judges and courts..to put away the lot of them who even committed perjury and lied to the Queen. So many crooked schemes ppe just the edge of it. Deal with them make them pay back our stolen monies ..you ll find there s so much spirited away..
When you’re a working taxpayer in the UK you pay for the people who can’t be bothered to work and the people who are rich enough to offshore and not pay taxes. People are moaning about us getting annoyed at people below us on benefits and instead saying that we should get annoyed about tax dodgers above us when in reality we are entitled to be annoyed at BOTH of the groups! The ‘poor’ should get off their backsides and do a job and the ‘rich’ should be prevented from living here and offshoring their money. The working people are sick of carrying the can for everyone else.
I've been working since 1988 never been on benefits in my life until I recently laid off. I can tell you that being over 50 it's really hard to get a job , I hear all the time the media and government saying that there are millions of jobs available? I applied for Job after job most of the time I don't even get a reply. Now I'm working for less than the minimum wage as a self employed courier . I'm not even making a living and I'm relying on state benefits to top up my wages. . That's the quality of the employment out there especially where I live in South Wales! Massive multi national companies aren't even paying the minimum wage and are getting around it by using people as self employed workers or offering workers zero hour contracts . The Minimum wage should be a lot higher and the government should be looking at the multinationals instead of picking on the public again. Who do the government serve? The people or the big companies?
Indeed. Apply for jobs and document the selection process. Then sue companies that you can demonstrate probably age discriminated against you. Use the proceeds to buy Bitcoin and Tesla shares.
The broken health system is the core problem. People are getting sicker because it's harder to access timely treatment. Many are passing the point of being treatable or deteriorating to the point where treatment is too late for proper recovery.
That US private healthcare CEO (who was in to AI that failed 90 percent) got lead poisoning from 3,000,000 pencils signing a petition to have a properly funded NHS
Yep 😂😂😂. I read a news article a few months ago about a group of people who worked together to steal £50 million in Universal Credit! And what about the tax dodgers and £80 million they spent on PPE that went in the bin?😊😊😊
They also take supposed overpayments yet never give them back even if wrong..imagine how msmy billions that is. Get Sunak and J and co on a court trisl to euther pay back stolen zillions or else long prison sentences...where did it go on their embezzling lying scams...
@@alexs6770 exactly, it's already been said in the media, they did a analysis and found there is absolutely - 0 - fraudulent claims aside the few under investigation or that are routinely caught FOR EXTREME Benefits fraud using false names and multiple applications using false addresses etc
It’s amazing how in countries where there is no real welfare benefits that “depression” is not a factor in stopping one from working and supporting one’s self….. amazing
I have a friend who mentors getting people over their mental health issues -a lot can’t get well because they couldn’t cope with the cost of living and managing on a low income.
I have a friend who is a support worker for mental health detained patients how you think she feels earning a take home pay of £1800 a month and the people she cares for are getting £800 to £1200 a month disposable income no bills to pay no rent to pay meals provided and a unsuite room and all the latest trainers and high end brand clothing .
@ yes I also work in End of life care on a similar wage . I’m not justifying it , but my friend reports that it’s not in their interest to admit they’ve recovered - need some bridging system.
@@billybobdog3815 I expect she feels terrible. But this should incentivise her to use her training, experience and re-train or market herself for a better position elsewhere. There is too much self-victimhood around these days. Too much 'poor me'. Sorry to sound harsh, but some lessons need learning, it seems to me. I was lucky enough to be taught them at an early age, perhaps some readers weren't. Well here they are.. Everyone should learn to see the positive in their situation, not keep dwelling on the negative and then staring into an abyss of hopelessness and despair. For every situation you find yourself in, there is usually an upside - as long as you look for it. A sense of entitlement and bitterness will kill that off entirely - and to their own detriment - not to anyone else's. Working people have more of a chance to change their situation than those who can't or don't want to work, even their wages are not that high currently or they feel put upon. Working has always been the same. Nothing has changed. You need to work your way up or start up your own business to stand any chance of a good life and to deserve a good life where you can live well and, perhaps retire early. People are also lucky and not everyone is. That is also life. Everyone who isn't lucky or a hard worker (and I don't been slogging at Aldi on minimum wage) just gets by at best - scraping to the pay the bills and slogging away into old age until their bones give way. The only difference between then and now is that in the decades when I grew up as a teenager and young adult people realised that they were in that position because they deserved it due to an adversity to risk, not being bothered, not having any get up and go, playing safe, not aspiring to something better and just staying in a nice safe job that was going nowhere. Now everyone is so darned entitled, they believe everyone owes them a living - and a good one, at that - from the cradle to the grave - even when they don't pull a finger out. They are too busy saying 'poor me, poor me' and guess what they end up poor. So life can sometimes throw you a curve ball, doesn't mean you should give up on life and expect everyone else to carry you. The lesson endeth.
Regulate the employers’ behaviour, people will then want to work. Nobody wants to go to work and get mistreated on top of having to do the workload. Unfortunately, this is happening in most workplaces.
It is the system that is making us sick. Work hard all week just for pay high house rents, expensive food and transport. We are left with peanuts and in a long run some people can’t take it anymore and sickness shows
Exactly. At some point, you just can't chip away any more without it becoming obvious that society is broken. It is all connected. The State has been dismantled and all those aspects of society that keeps a person housed and warm and fed are gone. Sold off. No bloody football pitches or libraries, no doctors, no chuffing dentists, or places to go. No jobs, no heating, no hope no food....no nothing. And the Coup de Grace, Brexit, ensured that nobody gives a toss about us anymore.
A lot of us are working with health conditions, a lot of people have decided that it’s not worth sacrificing their health for company’s where they are undervalued and a government that pisses their tax up the wall. I’m lucky to be in a job that offers a range of adjustments but if my option was retail, customer service or hospitality I most definitely wouldn’t be working. The sick bill will keep increasing until work is more attractive than driving yourself into a breakdown for pittance.
@ We pay tax regardless, I have never had a reduction in my tax when unemployment rates improve. I speak to the staff in my local coop who get abused by shoplifters, understaffed and underpaid. They are disrespected by the public and their managers. It’s really a double edged sword, it’s easy to punch down but the problem comes from the top where society has been allowed to become lawless and wages are stagnant.
@ I used to have a negative view on people who claimed benefits but I worked in the jobcentre for two years. People had been failed by the care system, mental health system, prison system, school system and then we were expected to bash them with a stick for not wanting to work for a company headed by a tyrannical CEO pocketing bonuses whilst they’re struggling. I’m not even left leaning but I can understand how it’s come to this.
@@MrNelford Im currently working, i have a number of conditions, one of which is a nerve condition that causes me to be in immense amounts of pain and have to take strong painkillers every day. I work 8-10 hours a day and employer doesn't give a shit if im in pain, none ever have. Either turn up to work in horrendous pain dosed up on pain killers or don't get paid and then they expect overtime every week to get things done on time. Every day i struggle through this shit going on the sick looks more and more like the best option. Why should i have to spend my life in pain with absolutley no help from my employer to make things easier, just to make them millions when i get paid 27k per year??
@@Londonlight522 really good to hear you've changed your views on this! Yes send all the people kicking those on benefits to work at the job centre for 2 years :P all the MPs can go.
@@chester6343 100% it's not justified but you know what is justified abolishing MP's claiming expenses, getting fed for free ect, taxing the mega rich corporations, getting rid of tax loopholes
I’m pleasantly surprised that the comments section is so understanding and enlightened, because so often these sorts of documentaries call out the right-wing hate brigade. I was expecting abuse because I’m longterm disabled, but it seems people are seeing past the media spin and understand that people on benefits are not the real problem.
"Right wing hate brigade" you'll find the left have a lot more hatred for their fellow humans. Us people on the right want the best for our country and our people!
Not all people on benefits are the problem, we ALL understand that, but there really are a lot of people gaming the system and taking the p-- and a lot of them aren’t even British. That’s what gets people riled up.
the government doesnt care about its people, the whole system needs changing before the UK is a third world country. They wont help people with serious health problems! if you can walk you can work! no matter what quality of life you have or how much pain your in it just doesnt matter to the narcissists in charge
My husband has been in knee pain for a long time and he had been waiting for 5 years no chance NHS helps at all now he had been going to another country for help and of course he paid for himself ,he never ever calmed for anything in this country only he did all pay in
Im sorry, Antony admitted that he struggles with addiction,but he has managed to show up for the assesment as there is a chance to get more money. Okey, but when you show up to work you get 💰 money! So what is it that made him show up? Maybe its a free money? Nevertheless, he must be given someone a care, who would be coming, checking on him daily, helps to get up on time , dress up, clean up, get him to the aa meetings & if he misses, benefits should be sanctioned! People asked to spend 35 hrs a week to look for job, why cant we ask poor health people to do similar to get benefits going whilst getting rehibelitated. Volunteer jobs, such as food bank e t c it shoul be given along with benefits an education, cos people ill with one type of long term conditions could be capable of doing other kind of jobs, like an accounting,etc.
Back in 2021 I had Glandular Fever and Covid within 12 months which brought on chronic fatigue and multiple autoimmune conditions. I had to stop work in the middle of 2022. I was fortunate that I had income protection insurance through my retirement fund which meant I received 80% of my salary while I was unable to work. People don’t realise how stress and worrying about how you are going to live while you are unable to work affects your health. I didn’t need to worry about that and could focus on my recovery. I will be going back in a part time capacity in the new year working my way back to full time over the first six months next year. I feel so fortunate that I had the support I needed and sad that many people don’t. One thing I didn’t mention - I live in Australia.
@@WayneClarke-n7b I sincerely hope you never become disabled or chronically ill, sir. I have been struggling with chronic illness for my entire 20's and I've been fighting to get better at every step, being cutailed by the NHS at every turn. I'm grateful to those who are able to work and pay taxes to support me. My life is not really worth living with the pain I experience every day, but I wouldn't be able to survive at all without benefits and there are people who care that I continue to exist.
If you have a mental issue, go to a therapist. Don't claim life long benefits. It's like saying, I have a toothache, can't work, give me benefits. Go to a dentist and solve your issue.
As per the Office of National Statistics the estimated number of vacancies in October to December 2023 was 934,000, a decrease of 49,000 from July to September 2023. As of February 2024, there were 9.6 million people of working age in the UK claiming some combination of benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This is excluding those of State Pension Age. Can anyone see a problem of Labour's claim to getting everyone off benefits and into work?
Why? at least they contribute to society, and will likely reinvest what they would have spent on tax in further growing the economy. The benefit scroungers are just a burden on society.
@@MrJeffHead How do they contribute? they pay little or no tax - pray you never get a disabling illness, although I do think it would be a great lesson for you.
@@petersavage9456 They employ lots of people. They pay lots of VAT, Employers N.I. They support lots of local businesses. Lots of people with disabilities work, some very severe. When you see people like that working and then see 4th generation benefit scroungers and people fresh in the country claiming it makes you frustrated paying so much in tax.
The Government's attacks on disabled individuals through policies like the Work Capability Assessments (WCA) are already documented problems. These assessments were used to reclassify sick and disabled individuals as "fit for work," often leading to the withdrawal of benefits. At the same the protection of disabled people's rights, freedoms, and liberties was taken away, frequently leading to dramatic or even tragic consequences.
Fraser Nelson, the narrator of this “investigative documentary” who “has been investigating this for years……. Blah blah blah”, has being doing other stuff for years: Nelson is a board director of the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, yes the very right wing conservative think tank. Additionally he was editor of The Spectator (he was succeeded by none other than Michael Gove, that other ….). In May 2018 he publishing a defence of German troops by Taki Theodoracopulos titled "In praise of the Wehrmacht" which said readers should feel sorry for Wehrmacht soldiers at Normandy. Not sure I would treat Mr Nelson’s views as being balanced or neutral.
Well said. I can see the resemblance between Fraser Nelson and the Natzi or Soviet regimes' propaganda, which produced films and posters depicting people with different abilities as a burden on society. These materials often highlighted the cost of caring for disabled individuals and suggested that their existence was a drain on resources. They also seem to cherry-pick people for this documentary and misrepresent the facts. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has already faced significant scrutiny over deaths linked to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants. According to figures released by the DWP, 17,070 PIP claimants died between April 2013 and April 2018 while waiting for a decision on their claim. Additionally, 7,990 disabled people died within six months of their PIP claim being rejected during the same period. According to a report by the National Audit Office, at least 69 suicides have been linked to problems with benefit claims over six years. However, the number is much higher, as the DWP has not actively sought information from coroners or families or investigated all reported cases. DWP systematically ignores official complaints regarding the abuse of their powers, hoping that people will die from being in distress or too sick to fight.
Thank you I have just checked him out on Wikipedia he certainly keeps nice company! Theodoracopulos's column "High Life" has appeared in British weekly The Spectator since 1977, where he wrote a series of controversial articles, including one claiming that black people had lower IQs than other people, for which Boris Johnson, made editor in 1999, later apologised.[8][9] He has also written for other US and UK publications, including Esquire, Hamptons Magazine, Newsweek, the New York Press, The Sunday Times, and Vanity Fair.[10] In 1984, Theodoracopulos was arrested for the possession of cocaine, after attempting to board a plane at Heathrow Airport, and served three months in HMP Pentonville.[3][5] He documented his prison experiences in Nothing to Declare: Prison Memoirs (1991) and discussed them in an extended appearance ........
@@noramartin96@noramartin96 Wow, it explains a lot and shows his tendencies and real intentions. This so-called "documentary is dripping with misinformation and disgusting manipulation. He also seems to think that general viewers of this soft totalitarian propaganda are low IQs who will not see how low and up to who's "behinds" his cocaine nose is this time.
Simple fix: For people who want to work, the govt should simply pay them the difference if the wages are less than the benefits they were getting. This will give people a sense of security, since they will be assured that their total income will be at least as much as the benefits they are currently getting
One of the big issues is that the nhs isn’t functioning. I was working full time up until 3 weeks ago where I was admitted into hospital . I had a stent put in and was sent home and told to wait for a surgery date. My body is struggling with the stent and it’s causing lots of pain and i am now struggling to walk without lots of pain. Spoken to my doctor who said they can’t do anything and I need to put up with it until I have the operation and can have the stent removed. God knows when I will get that operation . I feel like I’d rather die than go through this pain everyday for ever . My father’s been waiting for heart surgery for over 3 years !!!! I hope a kidney surgery for myself doesn’t take so long and now it’s the struggle to try and get some support while I currently can’t work 😢 I’ve been so confused because there where no symptoms and then suddenly it all hit me and I ended up becoming and emergency situation which had me spend an entire week in hospital. Unfortunately I’m one of the minority of people who have bad reactions to stents 😭
That sounds awful, I hope they’re able to get it sorted soon! I’m fed up of waiting around for appointments and tests, I’m one of the lucky ones who has been allowed to work from home so I still work full time but I still need lots of days off sick. Such a waste that a more organised NHS could solve!
Producers of this program seem to be in excellent cooperation with The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which has already faced significant scrutiny over deaths linked to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants. According to figures released by the DWP, 17,070 PIP claimants died between April 2013 and April 2018 while waiting for a decision on their claim. Additionally, 7,990 disabled people died within six months of their PIP claim being rejected during the same period. These figures have raised serious concerns about the assessment process's impact on claimants' mental and physical health, leading to calls for reforms to ensure the system is more compassionate and supportive. Since then, not much change has been noted between disability rights advocates, activists, and claimants. Therefore, it is logical to conclude that DWP's introduction of new types of powers involving scrutinisation, investigations, and privacy rights violations will have further, more severe consequences not only for people with disabilities but also for their entire families and communities.
OMG I am truly horrified to hear this. I claimed PIP and it was only by a stroke of pure luck and the heavens smiling down on me that the assessor I got had the same condition and so I didn't need to convince her that I was telling the truth. She would know it reading my claim. But it shouldn't take luck to claim. I dread my 2 year review and how much I will have to fight.
I'm not quite sure why so many people believe that GPs decide who gets sickness benefit. On Universal Credit certainly, a person has to go through a Work Capability Assessment which is run by the DWP. The DWP decides in 100% of cases who gets sickness benefit and who doesn't. So it's a bit rich that you have people like Mel Stride castigating GPs when it's the DWP themselves who decide on sickness benefit.
Why not do a documentary on the huge profits of big companies and corporations, that are paying minimum wages on zero hours contracts, or the high cost of accommodation, I say this from the perspective of a 56yo man with severe depression and times in life I haven't been able to work,, who's not been able to keep a house, now living in a van and trying to survive,, but unable to navigate any kind of benefits system,, it's too difficult,
Love the push from the comments on this video. We only ever hear one side of the story on the media, and I always love to see the British people push back against these old neoliberal narratives that only talks about the problems but never about the model that causes the problems to begin with. Families should be at the center of the macroeconomy not the markets, what we have is a system that’s prioritizing the well being of money over the well being of the people.
capitalism is the problem, it can only function if there is a large base of low paid workers, welfare only exists to stop the pitch forks. right wing dirt who complain about "benefits cheats" are either liars or they are ignorant of how capitalism works. full employment would be a catastrophic disaster for the rich, they don't want it, and they know it is their greatest lie.
100%. I think the penny is dropping more and more, and we can all contribute by spreading the message far and wide. LOUDLY. This is a failed economic model that wreaks disgusting havoc upon a supposedly ‘developed’ economy. Why anyone would think that tying up huge swathes of wealth in illiquid and unproductive assets - like housing - is a good idea is mind boggling, This is the net result, skyrocketing sickness, low growth, high tax, unproductive, uncompetitive economy, The system is your enemy, make no mistake,
@@Azoz195 exactly, they treat an unproductive sector of the economy (the banking system) as if it’s the only thing that matters, what’s scary is like how they were so proud of the fact that they were attracting international investments to Britain, as if it’s needed, listen if the investment money is coming from outside you can be sure the gains from that investments are going to leave the country, it’s as if they are confusing money with capital, in the process of doing this they are also undermining the pound, it’s as if they don’t know that Britain, the Bank of England has the capacity to finance whatever capital is needed in the country. They pretend they don’t understand how monetary policy works, I gotta say the overall quality of the politicians is like some sick joke, any serious mid/long term investor would actually be afraid to invest in Britain watching the politicians talk, the only people who are happy are the speculators.
People are getting depressed because they see no way out of poverty, buying a house cost a fortune then all the bills to pay, not much to look foreward to
TV used to be more inspirational and much better for mental health than it is now; we used to be allowed to have comedy and satire. Social media and all news services are now appalling for mental health.
How on earth can you make a documentary about long term sickness without discussing the critical state of our healthcare, lack of mental health services, and abysmal waiting lists?! I know for a fact I wouldn't now be on sickness benefits myself if I'd had proper care in the last 2 years. This is a problem caused by the government not the people. And no I don't want to be here on benefits, I would like to earn, have a nice house, be in a position to think about starting a family, and go on holiday thank you!
Mental Health care in the UK is absolutely abysmal. It's Victorian level bad. A guy I know went from working to being sick. When he was working, able to work, he earned 5X what he gets on benefits. He'd rather work, but can't manage it. Mental Health care, especially beyond being thrown a bag of pills, doesn't exist. And no, doing self-study via the internet is NOT a treatment. Do some people cheat? Yes, of course, you'll never totally eradicate it. But for those in need, what's the alternative?
Starting a family and going on holidays are luxuries of ppl who can afford them, so maybe park that until you can support it, not tax payers who strive for those things but also fund you
@johns1600 this is what I'm saying, I'm having to park this, and I shouldn't have had to if I had the right care from the start. I've paid taxes all my life until July this year so no need to make me feel bad about it, I don't want to be here! If I could work I absolutely would.
It's just basic human psychology: If feeling sorry for oneself is encouraged, everyone starts feeling sorry for himself. If being strong and facing up even the hardest challenges is encouraged, then people find in themselves a strength the never imagined they had before.
The country went over the cliff years ago. It looked bad already before the Global Financial Crash. Then the gov spent £100bn to take over the banks, and another £600bn to recapitalise the same banks to get them lending again. Gov debt has ballooned ever since. We have been “lucky” in over 14 years in that the interest rate has remained low, why the gov hasn’t been too badly affected, but those days are now over, and if interest gets 10% just the interest on the govt debt will be £300bn (more than total cost of NHS). The Automotive industry is dying, we haven’t prepared the country for ban of petrol/diesel, there is hardly any charging stations, and those in place rarely works. We buy ALL our energy as we gave/sold our ability to make it ourselves, our 28 water companies owes £100bn, and probably need another 100-200bn to sort all the waste water problems, train services are most expensive in Europe, and many in a pathetic state… Economically inactive people are just a small problem in a much larger financial (pending) disaster… Not to mention #Brexit. How 52% of population could think we could afford to live outside the union shows a lot about the level of financial acumen/skill by ordinary people. Well, they can only blame themselves… It’s not all bad though. The circa 150 billionaires in the country have circa doubled their wealth since the Brexit referendum. Several has also since left the country… Dyson being one….
Iceland and Portugal had far worse financial crashes then us. They did the right things. They are now florishing. We had this idiot with blonde hair going around protecting banks. He became PM.
yeh he went to singapore. just like brexit hero jim ratcliffe who makd the ineos grenedir 4x4... all british all the way.. got millions to develop land in wales... ended up building in france. yeh the banking was why you had separate retail banks and separate merchant banks. that way casino banking would not destroy the economy. some bright spark decided to deregulate that as well as share buybacks. it was just over a decade from boom to bailout.
@CRingsing The Tories sold off the tax-payers' shares in the banks purchased by Brown's Labour Govt and, for less than we paid for them - quite unecessarily. Lovely jubbly for their City mates.
@@AnthonyD-yy2in No problem. 3rd world people like me coming in will work without no respect and climb up the social ladder by being smart with the earning. I was a cleaner(wages I got back then was £6.79) and then working smart I got out of the menial job pit by educating myself and getting a degree in theoretical physics and now I earn a not so bad wages and housing is no problem either. You keep living by your motto of "No respect for me.. no work from me." and you wil rest in peace much like the Neandrethalensis when Homo sapien arrived into the European continent. I like Darwin and love his theory. May the weak one parish and be replenished by hardier and more adapted breed and thus this speicie is made more stronger.
The loss of benefits pushed many disabled individuals into poverty. Studies have shown that nearly half of the poverty in the UK is directly associated with disability, as per research conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). Their report highlights that nearly half of everyone in poverty is either a disabled person or lives with a disabled person. This led to a sudden drop in income, making it difficult for people with disabilities to cover basic living expenses. The stress and anxiety of losing benefits, coupled with the pressure to find work despite their health conditions, led to a decline in both mental and physical health for many individuals. Charities and support organisations noted increased demand for their services as more disabled individuals sought help with appeals, financial support, and mental health services. The assessments were criticised for being inaccurate and not considering the full extent of individuals' health conditions. This led to many wrongful reclassifications and subsequent appeals. These consequences highlight the DWP's policies' significant impact on the lives of disabled individuals and the broader implications for society.
This is wrong .if you get benefits abd disability benefits you are on as a good an income as a starter social worker about 1700 per month .disabled are not poor !!! Do turn 2us curves if you don’t believe me .if you are single and not disabled but on benefits then you will be on low income .the drinking hit has m h issues , spends his money on weed and drink .he is not poor but has m health issues bless him Lost to the system Get the money but not the help ,!! That’s the issue , lack of help for people .
In the financial year ending March 2024, the Crown Estate reported record profits of £1.1 billion, largely due to significant fees from offshore wind farm leases. These profits are paid directly to the UK Treasury, supporting public finances.
raising wages is an inflationary response - we need to cut costs instead for things like housing. But how is it fair that someone not working can earn £10k a year more than the average wage for the area. We need to help people get better and off benefits, but at the same time there are some that are taking advantage and its not clear what the balance is. If there was an easy answer to the problem it would already be happening
Baby brother was _Northwest Engineering Trainee of the Year_ (me vomited daily due to stress of bad atmosphere of limited apprentice places) union got him full pay - he had a VW in days but he's still homeless after running his own firm with 10,000 customers 2008 destroyed (he was held back from any career progress in managed decline Manchester) - I only won the college Physics prize and did advance Maths a year early so 1984 they put me in a forced labour camp (all our family was depressed after BBC jailed our other brother who never saw the towers fall)
In the UK the wealth distribution is now worse than it was during the french revolution, the gap between our richest and poorest 10% is now, the US excepted, the highest in the developed world. And the rich will still be telling you its the fault of the poor people and you will still buy their papers and still be poor. Blame the poor, blame the immigrants who are poor not the literal people making our lives worse and who own both parties and the media, the oligarchs.
I'm a disabled woman at 27 years old. I've been trying to get proper medical support since I fell ill around 8 years ago. I was chronically ill the entire time I was undertaking my law degree, and even flunked it at one point and had to resit a year. I would love to be able to work, to work hard to earn my place in society, to have a home, to have children, but the NHS has failed me time and time again. I have an autoimmune disorder that could be easily treated if I could only see a doctor regularly. It took around 7 months JUST to get a blood test because my GP surgery's blood test form printer was broken for non emergencies. What do you know, I finally get my blood tested and my medication needs to be put up. Just let me rot for another half a year before I can get that sorted out. I wish I didn't have to claim benefits.
I've got Degenerative Spinal Disease, I have arthritis, I get cramps during the day, I can't do anything physical like I used to, 10 years ago I was diagnosed with this and not once did they offer me the choice of surgery, I even got down on my knees and begged them to refer me but they wouldn't. I'd much prefer to be earning £500-1000 a week and contributing to the country's pot than be stuck on but ESA and PIP and, despite known scientific benefits of medical cannabis, which was legal for medical use since 2017, they refuse me but they'd rather fill my gut full of dirty pharma! Because they make money off of prescribing us it, they're paid to and there's nothing we can do about it, it pisses me off so much! £40k it is for the surgery and what's the bill for all of the pharma over 10 years?
I have PTSD from growing up with extremely abusive parents and also parenting induced ADHD. I've been using cannabis on a daily basis for over 27 years and I struggle with regular mood swings throughout the day every day. I have feet problems which cause me a lot of pain in my whole left side of the body, from my big toe all the way up to my neck. The pain restricts my mobility and I struggle to move on a daily basis. I have two auto immune conditions which I'm aware of and suffer with their symptoms. I have 4 university degrees, including a law degree and 2 master degrees. I've been working through my life and I started having a summer job when I was 11 years old. I workout every day, keep fit and stretch regularly. I have a successful business and often work 12+ hours a day and haven't claimed a single penny from the government apart from child benefit. I own 2 houses and one was paid off completely after 8 years. I'm 49 now. Grow up and get a job. Probably your auto immune condition and mental health will improve rapidly. Just saying you know.
@charliebrown6455 what an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. People with auto immune conditions are often seriously disabled with physical symptoms all over the body. Not self inflicted by smoking cannabis every day straight for 27 years either. Do some research on the different types of arthritis and then come back to me before spouting your uninformed bigoted nonsense. You think because you can cope with/smoke away your "PTSD" you can belittle people like this? Grow up.
Yep, seems like a hit piece on those claiming benefits, how is the media allowed to make such discrimination documentaries? I'm happy to pay a little more on my wages to help folks on benefits, it's totally un-British to kick a man while he's down shame on Fraser Nelson making a hit piece. Yesterday, it was letting granny freeze today the disabled this Gov is racing to the bottom. Unbelievable Liz Kandel sitting down with this guy seems kind of it all being orchestrated by the Gov and their mates in the media.
definitely.. there are so many patient groups they could have requested interviewees from.. people with genuine conditions that are too sick too work,@Smith-n7n
yeh its ironic .... the poor, less well educated and vulnerable people are .... easier targets for cambridge educated elites to portray as lazy moochers.
The main issue is people are only earning about £1900 a month full time and millions of folk are paying over 1k of that on rent my rent is 385 a month for council they need to either make landlords rents cheaper or start paying full rent benefit my LHA is 485 a month the cheapest private rent in my area i could find was 1k its crazy the other issue is people want to stay in a nice area and are willing to pay what ever to live there
Mr journalist, with due respect to you, I’m 70 years old, I cried at night while I was working and receiving pip, I suffer mega depression, anxiety and panic attacks and have spondiloarthropathy, in constant pain, medication to fill my belly to assist my condition and many more other ailments, I don’t feel guilty claiming even when I worked, I’ve attempted a few times to take my own life to escape the reality of my quality of life. I would challenge any healthy person like yourself to walk in my shoes and then have a discussion with you and how my conditions affected you. But I wish you the best of luck with your health going forward.
I totally understand and my mum suffers with a muscle degeneration and deserves it too, but there is no denying that some people cheat the system and mess it up for the people who really need it.
He's speaking up for the ppl working hard in challenging times to fund the nearing 10% of the workforce off work and funded by those working and struggling
When they talk about all these available jobs they don’t mention that they are highly qualified degree level positions. Or they are very physical jobs that require walking and lifting. There are very few at home positions that offer a living wage and not just commissions. Given a choice between a disabled and non-disabled person an employer will go with the one who gives the value at the cheapest cost. Tell the whole truth
Who can live off of the wages they are offering unless you living at home with your mum and dad and don't have to contribute. Notice that he didnt mention that but was harping on about benefits being easier, and how do we know thats what the applicant said why didnt they interview him.
So you would rather live on freebies ? Thereby abusing the system which is meant to help those who are not able to work. What about the working class people who are working their backs off to make a living ? What if everyone sits at home complaining about the stress the job is causing? Every job causes stress and anxiety - that’s why it’s called “work”. That doesn’t mean one refuses to work.
@@fezaannazar4081 Stress and anxiety are absolutely not the definition of work, its just become this way due to businesses underpaying and overworking people. Working is not supposed to make you ill, which stress and anxiety by definition does.
@@fezaannazar4081 You don't understand it on a fundamental level, if everyone on this earth did not have to work.. they wouldn't. Would be human nature; secondly that means that to work requires a incentive. Work had an incentive for a long time; now the gap has gotten smaller, with the cost of living and other issues. You say what about the working class; working their backs off to make a living?? And?? what about them, they get up everyday KNOWING that they get shafted day in and day out, Some for so-called national duty and or pride. Both of which has declined over the last decade, even longer. The youth of this country were never taught nationalism, because government happily tore it down every chance they got; secondly there's nothing prideful about going out to work, to generate taxes for the government; under a sense of nationalism, for it then to go outside the borders of this country.. and it does; so much of it. And while we are it, watch it get spent on illegals and everywhere else. The problem is the working class; shaming every which way, hoping everyone boards the same train as they do; regardless of whether the system is broken beyond repair. It's why there's a generational hatred towards the likes of millennials/gen Z. because they aren't stupid they know what is up. In short, the incentive to work was lost a while ago, when wages slipped.. now it will never be found, when the natives watch their taxes and what they 'contribute' get wasted on illegals and everyone else apart from them.. while also having no increase in wages and quality of life. And good on them; Maybe the Government will start to care when the benefits spent will be 100b, because it is at 60b.. right now. And they aren't batting an eye.
So jobcentreplus is failing to deliver? Some might reasonably argue that it was all planned this way. For a start the contractor delivering the assessments tend to employ healthcare professionals less qualified than the the GPs of the claimants. Surely that is untenable within a duty of care.
No nurse with morals would take part in work assessment. Normal go after the ill not the billionaires, I been assessed as fit to work twice, and both time I lost PIP for six months while I tokje DWP to tribunal twice because you can not asses health over one phone call. Doctors have to constantly fight to keep me getting support, because DWP always assess as fit to work when you are not, I have a disability which effects my daily living and mental health. Because keep you shit together for 20 minute phone call vs 8 hour working day it is a big different.
I think having some guarantee to know your income will be secure would go a big way to coaxing people back to the workplace. Say if there was a promise that if you got laid off within a year of finding a job, you could re-apply for your previous level of benefits and have them reinstated with no long, drawn-out process, that would give people the security they need to risk transitioning back to the workplace without going destitute.
What’s the point in people working? There is absolutely no incentive! Full ridiculously high rent, full council tax, full payment for childcare, full payment for glasses, dentist and medication prescriptions and absolutely no spare money!! Imagine waking up every morning to spend all your life at work, missing out on family and life, just to barely cover your overheads. The government has a lot to answer for.
If you are working what you get depends on income. I would give everyone free eye tests and glAssews I think who find fewer people gi g blind also eyetezts can pick up others. Eg diabetes in their early stahes
@@deanosaur808 No it would not collapse. More likely the rich would come to the conclusion they would have to spread more of their obscene wealth around and employers desperately needing jobs done would have to get their finger out and get people that want to work for them other than simply the sole motivating factor being a job or starvation
@@Gibbo1 You do realize almost half of those on UC are in work? And the reason they are still on benefits and can't sign off is that big companies are using the benefits system which is paid for by your taxes to subsidize their shitty pay and conditions?
I’d rather pay money towards people unable to work or young single parents directly instead of paying all them wages for ‘civil servants’ to choose who gets or doesn’t get paid. I’d stop topping up low wages to force big companies to pay proper wages instead of taking unbelievable profits, paying peanuts and letting other productive earners pick up the tab, basically paying the likes of amazon welfare
OMG, your comment melted my heart. I used to be judgemental about people on benefits, as you only hear about the ones that cheat the system, until it happened to me. All I would need to be able to FUNCTION BETTER and go back to work is medication for my ADHD.
With corporations pumping the food, air, water with toxic chemicals the number of people with long term untreatable chronic conditions will continue to increase, this is what needs looking at
Why gov does not encourage working but it give to people just because they dont like to work . I get minimum wage around 1500£ a month and I know other people that have their house paid and reduce in bills and extra money for food .It is unfair for us working class .we are the engine of the country
It's formidable the amount of people on Benefits that want to work but when attempting or thinking about work their benefit money gets struck off. If they could continue to receive their benefit while testing the working environment for 2/3 months that would act as a proper springboard to help people to jump out of the benefit system.
@@Wally-555 Your name is wally, but I suggest going & reading how esa & pip is assessed.PIP is an in work benefit for those who are disabled,it lets them keep working while also having support to manage an ongoing health condition,& knowing they can take time off work for treatments or for illness reasons, but it's almost impossible to commit disability fraud.If you read my post you will be shocked at who most of the benefits bill goes to & it isn't disabled people.
That's another scam waiting to happen. Someone would " test the waters" for 2 months, earning benefits plus pay, then decide work isn't for them at that time and go back home. After a month they are back to testing the waters and quitting after 2 months.
People will always abuse the system, so the only answer is to be harsh and force people to work. In the 19th century people were forced into work as it was the "morally right" thing to do, as not being productive leads to the devil or some bullshit. Now in the 21st century, we've taken the absolute opposite and seem to be of the position that you should be able to choose to live without work and either end up in the same or better circumstance than someone who is working. I have always been of the opinion that the biggest driver for people to work is hunger. Its all game theory. How much does a minimum wage job need to be above benefits, before work becomes attractive, and how many people are on benefits because its easier, than working. Like FFS we're in a digital age. We have people who are bed bound who are Vtubers and making hundreds of thousands. We have thousands of jobs you can do if you are disabled, its just getting them into the right job for their disability if legitimate. And ofc there will always be a portion of people who are too disabled to work, but this is such a small amount compared to what we currently have classified as not fit to work.
@Serfdomftw some good points you make, but do you have a disability? If not then I question you're authority on this. I work as much as I can being disabled. It's not just about what I can do, which is writing annual reports for companies, it's about how often I get exhausted. I have a colostomy amd severe scoliosis. However I do agree that many people could find at least partial employment if the government invested in training. Forcing people is not the right thing to do unless their reasons are not legitimate.
I thought channel 4 had learnt its lesson about poverty porn with benefits street. No public broadcaster should be adding fuel to the fire to already a hostile environment which sees those receiving social security vilified and blamed for failed policies of the government.
Good for you. As a person with ADHD, you should also know that ADHD affects each person differently and late diagnosed and not treated ADHD leads to several serious health problems. Not to mention that this documentary is very misleading and deflects from issues behind the scenes regarding the government's recent proposal in the Autumn Budget to give DWP investigators the right to access and scrutinise the bank accounts of those who claim benefits, espetially those with disabilities. Today, people with disabilities. Tomorrow, everyone's ADHD or not.
@@littlemissgroove I want to get back to work properly but covid seems to have been a straw that broke the camel's back. Rubbish services, impossible benefits system, a government that hates me. Starmer can crack the whip all he wants but he's not getting blood out of a stone.
Exactly. No need to watch the documentary enough to scroll down and read all these shocking comments. Would be interesting to see if these people actually know who is paying for all this, they seem to think it's the government and not the few of us that actually go to work every day .. WORKING PEOPLE! If we all decided to live off benefits there would be no benefits to live off.
They are talking about people taking the mick with sick notes but people are going to have mental health issues when they can't afford bills in this country.
I worked in retail for Iceland and Lidl for over a decade, I've been off work now for almost two years, I claimed nothing for over 6 months of being sacked (illegally) I had no savings to support me during this time and have burdened my friends and family ever since, my mental health has spiraled drastically ever since, I will never work in retail ever again! I have no idea what I'm going to do I've currently been kicked off univeral credit because I'm just completely disfunctional on a daily basis struggle with any dead lines, I think I'm mostly past the point of caring.
Give yourself credit for sticking to those jobs for years, a lot of people dont have that resolve. And since you do have it, you have potential. I've cleaned toilets in factories even been a litter picker on a tip, you just have to think that although now might seem sh!t, the future doesn't have to be. But it will require you to believe that theres something positive ahead and follow the things that inspire you in gradual steps. Even if you don't have the funds you can go to Uni and get a scholarship to pay fees if you show potential and confidence. I just did and I'm in my 40's. People act like there's no prospects in the UK, but they'd think differently if they were raised in poverty in South America, Africa, India or Asia. Just being in the UK everyone has a massive privalage, many people around the world are living in abject poverty and war zones. Good luck and don't lose hope.
Two years looking for work I have applied to over 1500 jobs and only had two interviews and one of them hired me as temp for three months, I am not claiming any benefits never did but spending 9 months looking for work to work only three months it’s not worth so I don’t blame the people claiming anything they can, the country is broken.
If you have applied for that many jobs and not getting interviews im guessing your cv needs work or you are applying for jobs above your skill level. Do volunteer roles to get expirence or make yourself more employable with education
You applied for 1500 jobs & you haven’t got one? Definitely need to sort your CV out or your applying for jobs you don’t have the skills for. Phone up & send CV to some work agencies in your area by email maybe 5 or 10. You should be getting offered multiple jobs within a couple days. Every time I’ve done this in a new area, I’ve been offered at least 10-20 jobs within the week even after telling them how much I want to earn.
@@6figzz My cv was done by a professional. I got my skill levels but all I get is one day of work here and then nothing for weeks. For this year I’ll have just over three months of work so at the end of the day what is better constantly looking for work and stressing about it or just claim whatever you can. There is not that much work as to what the government is shouting left right and centre.
I'd like to know how illegalls here with no papers etc are doing security work even though it requires 10 checkable work history & who if they even have one paid for their SIA licence 🤔🤨😡
When the guy says "that can literally shorten your life" he isn't getting it, some of us don't care, that's ideal, we are that depressed we don't care if we have a shorter life
ALso the NHS can't prescribe drugs that work for anxiety anymore, I'd gladly work if I could hve diazepam to work, I can't though can I, so I'm stuck this way
@@lapetusXinteresting how the UK has more people refusing to work because they got bad mental health, yet the Syrian parents that lost their child are back in work the week after or taking up arms.
@@lapetusX Diazapam is an awful drug! I was on it for 2 years and only really worked for a couple of months on the prescribed dose!! It was hell coming off!!!
@Louis16261 then you gotta take off £80 for tax, then most likely water, gas, electric and Internet/phone as 600 a month is too low for all bills included. Then food, transport and clothing. Now because you're earning "enough" you don't get free dental nor do you have the time to go to places because you're working when everything is open and off when it's closed.
@@Louis16261 - then take away tax, NI, utility bills, travel costs to work and if you have dependents,their school dinner money, bus money. Council tax, food shop.
@@Louis16261 Not a great example. However, if you add in all the extra expenses that immediately land hard on the wage earner then there isn't much left to make a job the route to hope. You'd have to really, really love the job and not have anything else in your life or anything else you want, forever. We're not generating the types of jobs people can fall in love with, any more. It's all gone a bit tertiary in the UK. Few people can hope to make the world better and that's a basic human need whether we admit it to ourselves or not. People without a sense of their worth get sick. We need to feel we are doing something worthwhile.
Well done to the people in the comments who can see through this hit piece propaganda which is blaming the sick and disabled while the rich have never had it so good.
I'm of the belief that our economy will be saved with housing reform. Every economic argument I try to figure out always comes back to housing. The government have made some changes to alleviate this but no where near what's required.
Sick of seeing these documentaries constantly as it just constantly reaffirms this idea everyone is lazy and bums. Have a look into tax dodging and how much people on the top end of things get. Politicians are a great start. Stop villianising the people at the bottom of the chain
Employers need to start being more flexible for example for people with low mobility! Some jobs can be done from home…. But employers want to drag people back into the office for no reason
Something I am honestly curious about is, as I know nothing about this but why are sick benefits all or nothing? So if Amy is only able to earn £25k why is it not the case that sickness benefits top up her income £10k to the £35k she needs? As opposed to dropping to £0 if she works.
I not an expert but I am sure if she wasn't earning enough they help financially especially with stuff like rent. Not sure where she got that from. Edit: maybe she's just be misinformed or she's terrified of what might happen.
@@piddlydiddly Pretty much what puts many off doing voluntary work which is probably their best course of action to gaining references; an aspect virtually always overlooked in such documentaries.
The system penalises the working class basically. Because those claiming the benefits puts pressure on working class resulting in them paying nearly half of what they earn in taxes. Government needs to find money to fund the scroungers and the easiest option is to increase taxes, making life harder for working people, when, like you said, they can’t claim a penny simply because they are working, it totally nuts, I agree.
Get Britain working again? What jobs? Thanks to previous governments we have outsourced all trade… no steel mills.. no mines… we are a nation of service industries.. caring for the elderly for just above minimum wage.. delivery driving… taxi driver… cafe work.. seasonal jobs… people don’t want to exist on 0 hour contracts scraping a survival… we are on the brink of WW3 and I’m still trying to comprehend what would we actually be fighting for? A country that doesn’t fight for its own people.
You're fighting to reduce the national population and the national population of the other side. That's how you reduce the mounting problems. I'm not going. I refuse.
When the rent for a single room amounts to 1200 and the monthly salary is only 1800, it raises concerns about the feasibility of sustaining a livelihood.
@landrover4483 The primary issue faced by both parties is their acceptance of housing as a commodity. This is a significant injustice, as housing should be considered a fundamental necessity of life, not a marketable asset.
@@landrover4483 I havent worked since i was 27yo, currently i am getting £1500 / month from the benefits and i dont pay anything for my flat as its already paid off, the only thing i pay are council tax (discounted) and the factors which is around £150 every quarter. I do side gigs like selling stuff online which sometime i could make additional £500 on top. If i am very lucky £1000 which i always save for holidays to benidorm or magaluf.
550 a month I pay for a 2 bed
Then get a new job kid!
I pay 600 for a single room
I was labelled disabled after an accident at work. Being treated like a criminal and being forced into poverty through the benefits system nearly broke me. I am getting punished for having a disability and have nearly ended myself several times due to stress and anxiety never mind learning to walk again. They strip you of hope.
Please never give up; many people are fighting this system legally. This program is to trigger and unhinged people further, and there is an agenda behind all, as I put in other comments here.
That’s so bad! I feel so bad for you! 😢
Never give up; keep your life; may God and good people help you.
I can relate. That happened to me too
Stay strong dont let the Bstds get you. hope you feel better soon
Here we go again . The real issue is cost of living, energy costs, and poor levels of education. Go ahead and smash the unworkable, but it won't change a thing. We can't compete with emerging countries, because our housing costs are too high, energy costs for manufacturing is too high. This won't change the trajectory. Wages, cost of living and education. Otherwise your picking on the weakest again. Get the multi national tax dodger instead, just a thought
And my bonus winge, we can't compete with Brazil, Indonesia, India, china or any other countries who have low wages, low energy and low housing costs. Keep on day dreaming
@@oneplot5132 Need a global minimum wage. It'll never happen but would create equal opportunities and would massively reduce imports of most manufactured goods.
The cost of living is so high because people have to pay for so many on benefits via taxes.
14 years of tory austerity did that to this country
@@MrNelford So, the unemployed are an effect on the shortage of housing and price of energy? OK, Mr Economist, do explain exactly how. I do like a laugh.
Liz Kendall’s winter fuel hypocrisy after claiming up to £350 a month in energy bills
Cabinet minister, who lives in a £4m luxury London mansion, axed payments to pensioners despite having her own energy bills in her second home paid for by taxpayer. That is what politicians are like that is the norm.
The problem is low paid jobs. Having created a society of working poor through low paid jobs and zero hours contracts, it is not surprising that some people fall back on Welfare.
It's not "fall back on welfare" it's stress of having a low paid/ zero hours job and worrying how you're going to keep a roof over your head/car on the road/feed your family, etc.. Welfare, despite shitehawk Fraser's assertion, does not pay well, it's basically subsistence
I agree with you, it has been like this for too long now, I remember both of my parents being in work but their wages was too low, caused a lot of rows and we was living in the poverty. It doesn't add up.
Never hurt your back and neck, it ruins everything. Muscle weakness in both arms and legs, and pins and needles and numbness in pain on a daily basis so you get put on stronger pain killers because normal pain killers don't stop the pain and in my case the stronger pain killers don't help me much either. Need even stronger pain killers. I have Cervical Spondylitis, Osteoarthritis, 3 Prolapsed dics, Gallstones, Adult Scoliosis crushing my organs, Lungs, Heart ♥, Ribs, Stomach, Bowels and Bladder. IBS, Breathlessness every single day i have numbness and need back surgery. I also have hearing problems and poor eyesight, I am short sighted but my medication has made it even worse, because have blurred eyesight and my eye go out of focus and I get white flashing in my left eye and had countless accidents with my left eye and have something pressing on my optic nerve. Get knee pain in both knees and they crack and lock. Have breathing problems because of Scoliosis and have bad chest infections all year round and I have tried asthma inhaler but did not help me and get Bronchitis a lot have chest infections all year round. If i try to do anything strenuous i have to stop due to breathless and feel like I am going to have an heart attack and it is very scary.
@@paulhealy1 no one in India is on welfare and people are surviving, it’s time you followed the footsteps of the people you once colonised and controlled and then the Hindu community came and conquered. The foundations have been laid get the British people off benefits and into work. Only a true English 🏴 man can do this, and a party for the Greater Britain 🇬🇧 Star man and Labour
inter-generational failure in lives caused and destroyed by both parties... unskilled labour should be fairly paid, 2 x min pay.
This country would make anyone sick, i am sick of working 40 hrs a week just to keep a roof over my head
It's slavery. Simple
Vote Reform.
@@paulhank7967 So they can double down on keeping us poor while taking bribes and passing money to their mates? No thanks.
Is the refugees sick. They seem to get a lot of benefits?
@@paulhank7967 you seriously think farage and his ultra freemarket multi millionaire backers are going to actually do anything for working people
Would really love channel 4 to do an up to date MPs expenses and daily allowance documentary ....
This is the problem with the UK. Worried about a few thousands pounds here and there or some minor MP expenses. Meanwhile.....£5bn is lost to Government loan fraud or £100bn wasted on some NHS IT project and nobody cares.
And journalists.
two wrongs don't make a right
@@lmn6440 Why is it a wrong ? Do you feel they are overpaid for the role they do ? If you want a good quality government then you must pay well. Why become an MP when you can get a job in the banking sector on 200k+ per year ...
@Smith-n7n😂😂
This administration is putting many families in difficult situations. A lot of people are financially struggling to live, put a roof over their head and put food on the table. Things are getting worse these days, if you don't find means of multiplying your money you might wake up a day to realise you didn't plan well for yourself and family…
I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don’t know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate and stocks..
I’ve been diligently working, saving and contributing towards early retirement and financial freedom, but since covid outbreak, the economy so far has caused my portfolio to underperform, do I keep contributing to my 401k or look at alternative sectors to meet my goals?
Understanding your financial needs and making effective decisions is very essential. If I could advise you, you should seek the help of a financial advisor. For the record, working with one has been the best for my finances...
@@rougeur How can one find a verifiable financial planner? I would not mind looking up the professional that helped you. I will be retiring in two years and I might need some management on my much larger portfolio. Don't want to take any chances.
How can one find a verifiable financial planner? I would not mind looking up the professional that helped you. I will be retiring in two years and I might need some management on my much larger portfolio. Don't want to take any chances.
Wages are shamefully low.
Mental health support is shamefully non existent.
Rents are shamefully high.
A tragedy.
True - Gran's home was £1,ooo - and I've paid over £66,666 rent for the same house type and they want £66,666 more - my nephew had to pay £66,666 for basic exams in Accountancy
BUT ... We are from the government and we are here to help you.
@@gphilipc2031 Success has many fathers while duoligarchy controlled plutocratic government[s] printing Monopoly money love AI that 90 percent of the time is CEOs (Cremating Embalmed Orphans)
I think there's a lotta mental health help if folk really want it.
Healthy food is increasingly expensive, and the government is targeting farmers who produce that food. Water companies poison us and the environment. King Charles is on the highest benefits.
MAYBE its time to start rewarding those who do WORK ! Instead of taxing the hell out of them !
You can earn 12k tax free if you work full-time
You can earn 16k+ tax free on welfare
It 👏is 👏Bullshit 👏
Tax free allowance should be the same as welfare benefits
One pays 5k on average salary annually. That's not a lot considering education, infrastructure, healthcare, social care etc. ...
@@joannaz9398 That's really not a lot if all those things you enumerated work as intended. Question is, do any of those things work for the average Brit? Probably not, therefore all of those things are incredibly expensive.
Exactly, I think too many people think normal worry and stress is "mental health", life is stressful, you have to cope with it. Not working I believe makes people unhappy, they have no purpose in life.
@@jeannemillsom9300 this. exactly!
such a broad and undefined "social safety net" breeds a culture of weakness and laziness.
Why are they acting like there's million jobs available. Why are they concentrating on the weak in society when there's bigger questions to be asked
There are lots of jobs.There are many different types of jobs. The problem is most employers don't want to hire people with health problems. Or don't allow flexible working.
Exactly. A lot of jobs are not even worth applying for….rubbish wages, awkward hours, pathetic public transport at rip off prices making the commute sheer hassle and then you give at least a third of your wage to a greedy landlord so they can live in luxury in early retirement……it just seems that the whole system is a scam😡
@@alexs6770 the only jobs where I am instantly go to the polish and illegals where is your excuse for that?
@@alexs6770 There are less than 1 million job vacancies in the UK right now. Unless the government can create literally millions of jobs in the next year or so, they're going to be forcing benefit claimants to find jobs that simply don't exist.
@@abstractdrumz Do you hear yourself? In many countries there is 0 jobs and people find ways to grind out a living. If more jobs were covered, companies would grow, employing more people to create more jobs. Why should people that work their butts off in terrible conditions to earn less than the many benefits scroungers, have to put up with this pathetic parasite fest?
Im 35 and have depression, anxiety, insomnia and PTSD. Struggled with it my whole life but I still have went to work everyday. Not everyone can do that but alot more can.
Plenty of people claiming disability benefits also work too, either part or full time. Those that cannot and rely on benefits, majority are legitimate. Fix the mental health services, ability to afford housing and pay liveable wages and more people would be more open minded to return or enter the work force.
Read a news article a few days ago £900,000,000 DWP benefits go unclaimed each year......
You can work and claim PIP
Put nonsense in your brain get brain problems. Welfare is the most harmful thing (except real disable people) in society. According to ONS 50% of people living in social housing in working age, don't work!
Totol welfare cists less pensions is £270,000,000,000 a year.
@@allykhan8594 but yet pensions are the biggest spending point the all pip and UC combined.
For sick and disabled people to work there needs to be employers willing and able to hire and pay them. They never talk about that side of the equation.
Yep 100% Even if someone ill, managed to get a job they might get fired for not doing as much as their colleagues.
1. A retailer popular with the middle class and starts with the letter M, employed a deaf woman.
2.The woman was sent there by Remploy, a job agency for people with disabilities. Everyone at work ignored her for the whole day, staff, managers..
3.Most staff were not told she was deaf and thought she was rude including customers, they made complaints about her. No one spoke to her just me. 😠 😡
The current government helped get us here
I think about the treatment my mum received from the system, worked her entire life and suffered with gallstones in her late 50s. Whilst waiting for the removal she was in and out of hospital with acute attacks. What I can only describe was how she felt so stigmatized and bullied by the job centre for being temporarily out of work. She eventually went back after surgery into a 0 hour contract job to make ends meet. She's still in this position 10 years later as a care worker. She's treated like rubbish, no sick pay or holiday pay, she's terrified to go back to universal credit after her experience. It is such a broken system, and it's frustrating to think this is stigmatized. 0 hours is one of the most disgusting things to happen to the UK job system.
Labour said they were going to ban 0 hours?
@@noramartin96 Labour say a lot of things but little action to back it up so I'll believe it when I see it.
@@ZooHeretic It's been less than 6 months since they got in - they cannot fix 14 years of crap in 6 months.
Every worker is entitled to holiday and sick pay by right, even if they are on zero hour contract, part time contract or 40 hour week. Holiday pay is proportional to the hours you work i.e. if you work 40 hours/week you'll get holiday pay of 40 hours and if you're on part time i.e. 20 hours then your holiday pay will be 20 hours a week. If your mother is not paid holiday pay then she needs to put in a written grievance and failing that take the employer to an industrial tribunal. If you take your employer to a tribunal then they will sack you 100% !!!
Look into MPs Channel 4. My MP, Paula Barker, for example claims over £250,000 in expenses every year!!!! Plus many MPS have 2, 3 or 4 extra jobs paying them vast sums of money. How can they possibly do the job as an MP properly with all the extra jobs? Yet people who are ill get vilified for claiming benefits they are eligible for. (Incidentally, I don't claim these benefits). The NHS is on its knees, get that sorted it will have a positive knock on effect on people claiming. Plus what about all the BS jobs out there these days. Who wants to do a rubbish job with no job security regardless of their age. I used to be a supply teacher and got offered work recently. The agencies are offering the same money I was on in 2008, how is that right?
In real terms, we are ALL earning the same or less than we were in 2008. Except the richest 1%. They're 'earning' about 40x what they were in 2008. I wonder if there is a connection between the two?
Yes it does seem that a lot of MPs are pretty well off. I have great respect for Rupert Lowe, who donates his parliamentary salary to good causes in his constituency every month. He also has excellent ideas for governance.
Nhs is not on its knees, doesn't matter how much money will put into it will never be enough. Getting money is one thing. Managing them, second. You know why doctors cannot see more patients? Because they need to fill in stupid and useless documentation. That should be secretary work. Doctors should treat their patients. MEANWHILE in the UK you can have million gp appointments, no one will offer you full blood check. So you are booking one appointment after another, taking medicine after medicine, and no one will ever treat the problem, they will treat symptoms. In most cases one blood examination should help you to find the source of your problem, for example checking vit d deficiency, iron, CRP, sugar or cortisol level. It's also cheap. But what for, it's better to book million useless appointments and let your gp to fill millions of useless documents. Every single surgery I've been patient with in my town works this way. So pay for the NHS, more and more, they will waste more and more, nothing will change anyway. Same with physiotherapy, my severely disabled daughter got 1.5 hours per month, my pediatrician just laughed after hearing this fact.this system is creating disabilities rather than preventing and treating them. And it is structural rather than financial problem.
I agree. I have a level 3 diploma in childcare and 17+ years experience, last year I was offered minimum wages, and the management would pinch money out of people's checks, treat employees and the children in case like sc*m.
@@theinngu5560 that might be the only decent/ honest politician ever.
Maybe give people proper wages and healthy food industry to feed themselves with and we may have less illness? Just a thought.
Exactly most jobs are low paid and are like £11 per hour or like £9 after taxes it’s crap
You can pay people 50 pound an hour it wont help - inflation will rise by a similar amount- Imagine you are a hairdresser and are mandated to pay you staff 50 an hour - you will be out of business tommorow unless you rise your prices to cover it. The low wages reflect low productivity and money sucked into the public sector which produces half of what the private does for the same amount.
@@tonymiller225 should still be higher
@Smith-n7n Probably none. The country is in a death spiral. It needs hard medicine which will never occur in a democracy- 7pct of the working age population on long term sickness - vs < 1pct 40 years ago. The UK is screwed as is alot of the west,
Yup, but actually teach "home economics" where cooking and budgeting were taught so that there would be less reliance on take aways and microwaveable "food"..
You have to wonder how many peoole are stuck on benefits as the NHS can't or won't properly treat chronic physical and mental health issues in a timely manner.
so true, no cure no work
This is so true, firsthand experience, they won't treat my disease - only the symptoms.
🎆
@marknewellmusic same there isn't a specialist for my condition in the whole of east London and hospital that do have specialist aren't accepting patients outside their borough, when i tried to take out health insurance to go private I was told they wouldn't accept me or pay of treatments if I have an existing chronic condition so ive just been self managing this whole time🙃
@@meowkitty2956 IBD?
Living conditions are tied to it a lot of the time imo. I feel a lot of the people suffering from mental health illness aren't actually unwell, it's just their body processing being unsafe in an appropriate way.
Like if someone's parent passes? The way they feel and act after can look a lot like depression... but it isn't. It has a clear cause, if not for the cause they wouldnt be down.
When people aren't paid a wage that lets them live in a stable way, free from fear - of course they're anxious, on edge and mentally ill.
It's not something a course of CBT will treat. There needs to be massive systemic change.
Stop picking on the vulnerable. And start asking about the expenses that those in the house of lords use. Second homes etc. Expensive lunches.
how abut cancelling Liz Truss's PM salary for life being cancelled.
The House of Lords costs 91M a year and they revise legislation, this is 60BN for no productivity, 😂 get some perspective
& Off shore bank accounts of the rich
Please don’t find excuses to justify those abusing the system and not willing to work and pay their fair share.
Labour pick on the vulnerable, always been the same. And how dare you suggest billionaires should pay tax!
The incompetence of politicians for decades has caused this crisis.They allowed highly paid skilled jobs to disappear over 40 years to be replaced with minimum wage jobs in warehouses.
Civil servants do the incompetent long term policy work. Politicians are just figure heads for 5 minutes.
Added to that they import everything now, if there's ever another war the UK is F, ed, at least in the ww2 we had shipbuilding, coal mining, steel industry, heavy manufacturing industry, and farmers. had skilled experts in many different forms of making and building stuff. we had tons of apprenticeships for young people in jobs they were interested in right up until the late 70's.
Then both the Tories and Labour started to sell everything off to foreign investors, who now own all our utility companies, and transport, with the promise they were going to invest and update what they bought for the 21st century. instead, we still have an aging electrified network, victorian pipework, and over-inflated tickets for services that never run on time.
They did nothing and lined their pockets and paid massive amounts to their shareholders and CEOs at taxpayers' expense. Massive unemployment in the North, Scotland, and Wales where there are no jobs now, and no prospects for the young except a life on the dole. or piss poor min wage jobs where even if they worked there 20 years will still be paid min wage.
Even the work programs they send people on, where they are told that after they have been trained there's a job for them, the employer just gets rid of them after teaching them nothing and replaces them with someone else, after a year, easy money for them and next to free labor. but it makes the government books look good.
The politicians have not been incompetent. They have been very good at their job.....which was to drain the place dry right in front of everyone's faces and give an entire country's wealth to their mates. The Tories are actively evil. They enact policies which they know will result in misery and death. They constantly lie and con people while they are slipping the knife in. And they ALWAYS leave a broken society for Labour to clean up. Just wait a few years and the same people whose lives were ruined by The Tory Party will be singing the praises of a new "Compassionate Conservative" leader.
Incompetence?...Its being done on purpose.
@@richardbrown9344people say this and refer to some plan....what is the agenda and why?
A friend asked for mental health treatment, counselling, their GP kept ignoring them. Finally 5 YEARS LATER they were told they are now at the top of the list 😂
A friend was looking for help for problems he had kept getting told it’s anxiety related and given pills 3 years later his been told he has a type of cancer borderline stage 3 so the symptoms was not anxiety
lol 🤡
I keep getting referred to computerised CBT.... for psychotic depression..... and SSRI's, that I've already got a long history of trying, they don't prevent my symptoms.
@@piddlydiddly Sorry to hear that. Almost sounds like they are getting you treat yourself. If it's not helping please go back to your GP you deserve better.
@alexs6770 what is borderline hilarious is my GP surgery don't appear to know much about my medical history, only discovered this by the app. I've been agoraphobic in various ways, currently the worst at leaving my home drugged only 3 time this year for medical things. End of last year after a pip reassessment that took 12 months to complete pip contacted my GP surgery, concerned for my welfare. The bright spark GP over the phone refered me to the online talking therapies for a whole 6 sessions to cure my by then and now worst ever almost completely housebound agoraphobia will 6 sessions over the internet. Well since in person at home cbt and graded exposure has previously never fixed it, I guess let's try 6 online sessions instead lol. Course on completing those 6 sessions I apparently got magically cured so they removed the active housebound agoraphobia status. Which came after the GP filling out the pip form said i could travel to a medical, even though I couldn't even get down the road to the surgery. That's what happens when you have 15 GPs and locums caring for you over the telephone. They haven't a Scooby who you are or what is even wrong with you. I'm currently trying to get them to fix my medical records.
If the GP and medical system got improved more people might actually be treated correctly and helped, whether they can cure or not. What you can't do is fix someone using the wrong tools then blame the patient for failure, which is effectively the current system.
Look at the actual jobs, they are terrible, long hours, no breaks, no pay for overtime. You don't know what's going on out there. My daughter works twelve hour shifts, mostly nights she is slowly going downhill she is getting ill. Try properly regulating the workplace again. Don't blame the ill people and let the employers off their bad practices. Sorry Channel 4 this is terrible, just paying lip service to government prejudice about who's to blame about the Increases.
The country is no longer fit for purpose
Any other European country pays time & half after certain time during the weekdays & double on weekends and bank holidays
Well said.
@@user-vu9es1we8y Any other European country has Unions which aren't legislated against and that co-operate with the company for the common good. Also, as I checked years ago, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland have never heard of "Continental Shifts", and when told what they were the common answer was "our Union would never allow this". And too bloody right!
@@peterjones596 Well, if the unions didn't take the piss - then we would have had them!
Are you seriously doing a doc on poor people trying to survive? Why not do a doc on TAX DODGERS AND TRUST MANAGERS??? The fact that people with money are withdrawing it from taxation and hiding it from banks how are you helping? We have no NHS or support system. Everything costs double last year. People living in fear and persecution on waiting lists for the non diagnostic services.
Name and shame the billionaire tax dodgers who are the true paracites of the UK.
Agree with you, pay has been too low and it seems kept low for years. But the profits keep on rolling in. Thinking of companies like Amazon. Tax dodgers yes.
Close em down Duffy
@@Wally-555 If they were trying to help they wouldn't have hired a tory bootlicker to present it.
This opinion is insane. These billionnaires are the ones who pay a huge amount of tax that is paying for the benefits. Our economy is not falling apart because a few rich people hiding a bit here and there. Its falling apart because such a huge number of people only take from the economy and never give. You're mentality is exactly the problem and why we are in this mess. Its way to easy to keep blaming people who have money and are not giving enough to the poor, this is not a solution to anything.
"Every thing costs double last year"....really? which part of Britain do you live in where inflation is 100%?
Imagine if you will, having constant heavy menstrual bleeding with no more than 3 days reprieve a month, unable to leave the house at times because of blood loss, becoming severely anaemic as a result, being placed on a waiting list for gynae as an emergency referral and waiting 18 months to be seen even as an emergency, in the meantime you’ve lost your job due to sickness and being unable to physically manage it anymore. SORT HEALTHCARE OUT FIRST!
Agree with u totally
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I absolutely agree. My GP lost my referrals for the last 2.5 years, I bleed heavily daily too due to hemorrhoids, I saw them twice about it and I was thrown a cream and suppositories at. A few months ago I ended up in the hospital with IV drips for anaemia, and I suspect I might have to go back soon, to avoid fainting and maybe hitting my head in the fall.
Very sorry for you but many people are able to work but just don't want to
I got into a situation were I have Fibromyalgia with severe widespread pain im into new jobs then unemployed then into another new job then unemployed ect.... its very hard to manage, ive become fully dependent on strong painkillers like Pregabalin and Codeine but I have successfully been employed for some time and remarkably only had 2 days sick in the past year, the original OP comment really hit me hard because I know what it is like when you cannot make it out the door and your employer cannot cope with you being absent a high number of times, healthcare should be fixed first, painkillers stop working after some time and I will end up with a high sickness level once again. Don't send sick people to work, get their health right and get them somw support first because it's not fair on them or the employer
1.) Government prints money 2.) House prices and other assets inflate 3.) Salaries fail to keep up with inflation 4.) Life becomes unaffordable for the average worker 5.) Worker burns out and goes on sick leave 6.) Becomes depressed and stays on sick leave indefinitely. Meanwhile rich people with assets become insanely rich doing nothing.
So buy assets 😮
@@STEVOSTHEBOSS Exactly yes. But if you're on benefits or working a low paying job where do you get the money to buy the assets? Inflation is an invisible modern day slavery people don't even realize they're trapped in.
@@STEVOSTHEBOSS It's proportionality. People should do what they can. Exploiting the system is wrong whether from the top, middle, or bottom.
You forgot the ones in the middle that work hard to keep both sides happy
@@LangtonCars too true that. Now even the middle are getting squeezed from both sides.
A lot of people on long term disability benefits are living with horrendous mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and severe depression…….often there is no cure for these people and it is cruel to try and make these people go out and work in a normal job……maybe if the government looked at tax dodging by big companies and corporations people would realise that it’s NOT the disabled and mentally ill who are a drain on the economy.
Why should working people support people who have never and will never contribute anything to society. Let their families pay for it. Britain is a socialist state at this point.
It’s called neoliberal capitalism. Kings, politicians, corporations, mafia don’t pay taxes and allowed to make unlimited amounts of profits. While people like us have to pay taxes more each year while our income reduces by inflation. The bank I was working for after paying the missold insurance police’s, stop paying us bonuses and pay rises stoped in 2009 while the banks profits were soaring. The banks sell us mortgages at 7 percent, paying less than 1 percent for savings. Every 10 years, the government pumps our money to the banks which are not following the rules set by the government so that they don’t collapse. I get no service from monopolies like energy and water companies. I registered a complaint, no one cares.
Your ignorance is beyond stupidity and your failure to see reality is the reason the UK is a failed state
I tried to help 35 years ago by providing over 1200 full time, well paid jobs and recruitment was near Impossible as almost every candidate wanted every other Thursday off to sign on and to be paid in cash
I was, and remain, disgusted by the growth of the benefit state so much so that I sold up and left a long time ago and have never looked back as in most countries the people are better off working than being unemployed - unlike the UK where benefits pay much more than even well paying jobs - especially sickness benefits
@ I hope you don’t get sick and loose your job.
Do Starbucks Mcdonalds pay any tax ehat about entire govt and predecessor..did Bj and the like not embezzle cheat ask for million gbp pensions and get legsl aid! Plenty of judges and courts..to put away the lot of them who even committed perjury and lied to the Queen. So many crooked schemes ppe just the edge of it. Deal with them make them pay back our stolen monies ..you ll find there s so much spirited away..
Im glad alot of these comments are challenging this video and treating people compassion not hate.
💯 Their propaganda piece isn’t working.
Right? I thought that their propaganda would be effective but TH-cam commenters aren't taking any of it
Yup. Typical crap ass reporting . SHAME ON YOU CHANNEL 4
On the other hand people feel the opposite about those responsible for public money pouring into the pockets of the already rich.
That’s because most of the people shown are palm coloured. That’s the only reason the comments are showing compassion.
When you’re a working taxpayer in the UK you pay for the people who can’t be bothered to work and the people who are rich enough to offshore and not pay taxes. People are moaning about us getting annoyed at people below us on benefits and instead saying that we should get annoyed about tax dodgers above us when in reality we are entitled to be annoyed at BOTH of the groups!
The ‘poor’ should get off their backsides and do a job and the ‘rich’ should be prevented from living here and offshoring their money. The working people are sick of carrying the can for everyone else.
I've been working since 1988 never been on benefits in my life until I recently laid off. I can tell you that being over 50 it's really hard to get a job , I hear all the time the media and government saying that there are millions of jobs available?
I applied for Job after job most of the time I don't even get a reply. Now I'm working for less than the minimum wage as a self employed courier . I'm not even making a living and I'm relying on state benefits to top up my wages. . That's the quality of the employment out there especially where I live in South Wales! Massive multi national companies aren't even paying the minimum wage and are getting around it by using people as self employed workers or offering workers zero hour contracts . The Minimum wage should be a lot higher and the government should be looking at the multinationals instead of picking on the public again. Who do the government serve? The people or the big companies?
Hope you get a job soon 😢
they serve them self
The native British citizen is low down on the list.
Bitcoin Tesla.
Indeed. Apply for jobs and document the selection process. Then sue companies that you can demonstrate probably age discriminated against you. Use the proceeds to buy Bitcoin and Tesla shares.
The broken health system is the core problem. People are getting sicker because it's harder to access timely treatment. Many are passing the point of being treatable or deteriorating to the point where treatment is too late for proper recovery.
THIS
That US private healthcare CEO (who was in to AI that failed 90 percent) got lead poisoning from 3,000,000 pencils signing a petition to have a properly funded NHS
That's the real issue. Fix healthcare first.
its true. I waited 13 months for standard NHS physio. 18 weeks (4.5 months) was the target last met in 2016
NHS doctors are EXACTLY IDENTICAL to the sadistic war criminals who were "just following orders"
Read a news article a few days ago £900,000,000 DWP benefits go unclaimed each year.......
Yep 😂😂😂. I read a news article a few months ago about a group of people who worked together to steal £50 million in Universal Credit! And what about the tax dodgers and £80 million they spent on PPE that went in the bin?😊😊😊
They also take supposed overpayments yet never give them back even if wrong..imagine how msmy billions that is. Get Sunak and J and co on a court trisl to euther pay back stolen zillions or else long prison sentences...where did it go on their embezzling lying scams...
Exactly. Many ppl denied or are unaware of what they can apply for. You can't believe everything said r narrative on media channels.
@@alexs6770 Yes, they were Romanians. Hor that amount they must have had people on the inside.
@@alexs6770 exactly, it's already been said in the media, they did a analysis and found there is absolutely - 0 - fraudulent claims aside the few under investigation or that are routinely caught FOR EXTREME Benefits fraud using false names and multiple applications using false addresses etc
It’s amazing how in countries where there is no real welfare benefits that “depression” is not a factor in stopping one from working and supporting one’s self….. amazing
I have a friend who mentors getting people over their mental health issues -a lot can’t get well because they couldn’t cope with the cost of living and managing on a low income.
i cant either im oap
I have a friend who is a support worker for mental health detained patients how you think she feels earning a take home pay of £1800 a month and the people she cares for are getting £800 to £1200 a month disposable income no bills to pay no rent to pay meals provided and a unsuite room and all the latest trainers and high end brand clothing .
@ yes I also work in End of life care on a similar wage . I’m not justifying it , but my friend reports that it’s not in their interest to admit they’ve recovered - need some bridging system.
@@billybobdog3815 I expect she feels terrible. But this should incentivise her to use her training, experience and re-train or market herself for a better position elsewhere.
There is too much self-victimhood around these days. Too much 'poor me'. Sorry to sound harsh, but some lessons need learning, it seems to me. I was lucky enough to be taught them at an early age, perhaps some readers weren't. Well here they are..
Everyone should learn to see the positive in their situation, not keep dwelling on the negative and then staring into an abyss of hopelessness and despair. For every situation you find yourself in, there is usually an upside - as long as you look for it. A sense of entitlement and bitterness will kill that off entirely - and to their own detriment - not to anyone else's. Working people have more of a chance to change their situation than those who can't or don't want to work, even their wages are not that high currently or they feel put upon. Working has always been the same. Nothing has changed. You need to work your way up or start up your own business to stand any chance of a good life and to deserve a good life where you can live well and, perhaps retire early. People are also lucky and not everyone is. That is also life. Everyone who isn't lucky or a hard worker (and I don't been slogging at Aldi on minimum wage) just gets by at best - scraping to the pay the bills and slogging away into old age until their bones give way. The only difference between then and now is that in the decades when I grew up as a teenager and young adult people realised that they were in that position because they deserved it due to an adversity to risk, not being bothered, not having any get up and go, playing safe, not aspiring to something better and just staying in a nice safe job that was going nowhere. Now everyone is so darned entitled, they believe everyone owes them a living - and a good one, at that - from the cradle to the grave - even when they don't pull a finger out. They are too busy saying 'poor me, poor me' and guess what they end up poor. So life can sometimes throw you a curve ball, doesn't mean you should give up on life and expect everyone else to carry you.
The lesson endeth.
if you are long term detained all benefits are reduced
Regulate the employers’ behaviour, people will then want to work. Nobody wants to go to work and get mistreated on top of having to do the workload. Unfortunately, this is happening in most workplaces.
Jeeez, if this isn’t deflection from the real criminals (politicians) I don’t know what is!!!
Both of these things are problems.
Watch propaganda, expect propaganda.
Well said
And thus voters. Who did you vote for ?
This is an analysis of incentives and system design. I do agree that we should expect government to fix broken incentives by a system they manage.
I suffer from epilepsy, depression (and probably ADHD), but I still get on with it and work.
Hooray for you?
good for you
Thank you!
It is the system that is making us sick. Work hard all week just for pay high house rents, expensive food and transport. We are left with peanuts and in a long run some people can’t take it anymore and sickness shows
Indeed
Exactly. At some point, you just can't chip away any more without it becoming obvious that society is broken. It is all connected. The State has been dismantled and all those aspects of society that keeps a person housed and warm and fed are gone. Sold off. No bloody football pitches or libraries, no doctors, no chuffing dentists, or places to go. No jobs, no heating, no hope no food....no nothing.
And the Coup de Grace, Brexit, ensured that nobody gives a toss about us anymore.
Not everyone my local
Sainsburys shows many people are rolling in it .,if the number of mercedess and luxury cars worth over 60k are a barometer
A lot of us are working with health conditions, a lot of people have decided that it’s not worth sacrificing their health for company’s where they are undervalued and a government that pisses their tax up the wall. I’m lucky to be in a job that offers a range of adjustments but if my option was retail, customer service or hospitality I most definitely wouldn’t be working. The sick bill will keep increasing until work is more attractive than driving yourself into a breakdown for pittance.
What about the concept of self respect? So you are saying you would happily go on benefits knowing that others will have to burden even more taxes.
@ We pay tax regardless, I have never had a reduction in my tax when unemployment rates improve. I speak to the staff in my local coop who get abused by shoplifters, understaffed and underpaid. They are disrespected by the public and their managers. It’s really a double edged sword, it’s easy to punch down but the problem comes from the top where society has been allowed to become lawless and wages are stagnant.
@ I used to have a negative view on people who claimed benefits but I worked in the jobcentre for two years. People had been failed by the care system, mental health system, prison system, school system and then we were expected to bash them with a stick for not wanting to work for a company headed by a tyrannical CEO pocketing bonuses whilst they’re struggling. I’m not even left leaning but I can understand how it’s come to this.
@@MrNelford Im currently working, i have a number of conditions, one of which is a nerve condition that causes me to be in immense amounts of pain and have to take strong painkillers every day. I work 8-10 hours a day and employer doesn't give a shit if im in pain, none ever have. Either turn up to work in horrendous pain dosed up on pain killers or don't get paid and then they expect overtime every week to get things done on time. Every day i struggle through this shit going on the sick looks more and more like the best option. Why should i have to spend my life in pain with absolutley no help from my employer to make things easier, just to make them millions when i get paid 27k per year??
@@Londonlight522 really good to hear you've changed your views on this! Yes send all the people kicking those on benefits to work at the job centre for 2 years :P all the MPs can go.
How can we have this debate without talking about low wages and high cost of living???
Whilst that's true I don't think it means that rinsing the benefit system is justified..
@@chester6343 100% it's not justified but you know what is justified abolishing MP's claiming expenses, getting fed for free ect, taxing the mega rich corporations, getting rid of tax loopholes
I'm ashamed of Channel 4 tbh, it's usually the other channels that show such one sided arguments
We have the same problem in the USA. Too many people claiming disability for questionable health issues.
I’m pleasantly surprised that the comments section is so understanding and enlightened, because so often these sorts of documentaries call out the right-wing hate brigade. I was expecting abuse because I’m longterm disabled, but it seems people are seeing past the media spin and understand that people on benefits are not the real problem.
Agreed, its refreshing
This is because the people featured in the programme are "white indigenous."Migrants would evoke a different reaction.
"Right wing hate brigade" you'll find the left have a lot more hatred for their fellow humans. Us people on the right want the best for our country and our people!
Indeed, I scrolled down with dread, only to have what little faith in humanity i have left actually raised a little.
Not all people on benefits are the problem, we ALL understand that, but there really are a lot of people gaming the system and taking the p-- and a lot of them aren’t even British. That’s what gets people riled up.
Tax avoidance is 3 times higher than benefit fraud.
2024 Figures for overpayment or for fraudulent claims:
Personal independence payment (PIP) 0%, Universal credit (UC) 10.9%, Pension credit (PC) 3.9%,Housing benefit (HB) 3.9%
News said 0% of PIP claims were fake/fraud/ people making up illness. But people shouting they are lying nothing wrong with them 😮
Yes they should investigate tax fraud but that would mean they would be outed as committing tax fraud themselves!
Exactly but people don’t want to talk about. Channel 4 have a narrative and want us all to hate each other
Most of the tax avoidance is small businesses or shops taking cash instead of card, best way would be to go cashless, you okay with that?
the government doesnt care about its people, the whole system needs changing before the UK is a third world country. They wont help people with serious health problems! if you can walk you can work! no matter what quality of life you have or how much pain your in it just doesnt matter to the narcissists in charge
Read a news article a few days ago £900,000,000 DWP benefits go unclaimed each year......
@user-nu5rw8ol3vyou can remove the word slow from your comment please. I'm sure everyone knows what mentally impared means.
My husband has been in knee pain for a long time and he had been waiting for 5 years no chance NHS helps at all now he had been going to another country for help and of course he paid for himself ,he never ever calmed for anything in this country only he did all pay in
@@alexs6770 get a grip spakka.
Lets not forget how the the 3rd world became the 3rd world, UK government played its part there aswel!
Im sorry, Antony admitted that he struggles with addiction,but he has managed to show up for the assesment as there is a chance to get more money. Okey, but when you show up to work you get 💰 money! So what is it that made him show up? Maybe its a free money?
Nevertheless, he must be given someone a care, who would be coming, checking on him daily, helps to get up on time , dress up, clean up, get him to the aa meetings & if he misses, benefits should be sanctioned! People asked to spend 35 hrs a week to look for job, why cant we ask poor health people to do similar to get benefits going whilst getting rehibelitated. Volunteer jobs, such as food bank e t c it shoul be given along with benefits an education, cos people ill with one type of long term conditions could be capable of doing other kind of jobs, like an accounting,etc.
Back in 2021 I had Glandular Fever and Covid within 12 months which brought on chronic fatigue and multiple autoimmune conditions. I had to stop work in the middle of 2022. I was fortunate that I had income protection insurance through my retirement fund which meant I received 80% of my salary while I was unable to work. People don’t realise how stress and worrying about how you are going to live while you are unable to work affects your health. I didn’t need to worry about that and could focus on my recovery. I will be going back in a part time capacity in the new year working my way back to full time over the first six months next year. I feel so fortunate that I had the support I needed and sad that many people don’t. One thing I didn’t mention - I live in Australia.
You almost forgot to mention the most important thing, you don't live in the UK‼️Why the hell those people voted to exit the EU god knows‼️‼️
@@GAMascal345 Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain, but sadly, England decided to leave, so Brexit it was!
I am on disability receiving less than six thousand a year living below the poverty line. This programme is simple to stigmatize people on benefits
You should get zero! Why should my taxes pay for you?
@@WayneClarke-n7b becasue she is classed as disabled
@@WayneClarke-n7b Woah brutal! If you became disabled im sure you wouldn't be saying that. Your taxes should very much pay for public services.
@@WayneClarke-n7b I sincerely hope you never become disabled or chronically ill, sir. I have been struggling with chronic illness for my entire 20's and I've been fighting to get better at every step, being cutailed by the NHS at every turn. I'm grateful to those who are able to work and pay taxes to support me. My life is not really worth living with the pain I experience every day, but I wouldn't be able to survive at all without benefits and there are people who care that I continue to exist.
@@WayneClarke-n7b Would you say that to their face?
Stop bashing the disabled channel4. I’m sick of it. Mental health issues are real. Services are non existent. Scandalous.
@@leonbeaufort7660 that is why I whent to sage which is mental health Counciling group because I couldn't wait for the NHS I'm glad I did
Lots scamming mental health too. I've ment them...
I think it's aimed at sick not disabled?
If you have a mental issue, go to a therapist. Don't claim life long benefits. It's like saying, I have a toothache, can't work, give me benefits. Go to a dentist and solve your issue.
It's an agenda by MSM to demonize the sick and disabled@@Wishing_you_peace
As per the Office of National Statistics the estimated number of vacancies in October to December 2023 was 934,000, a decrease of 49,000 from July to September 2023.
As of February 2024, there were 9.6 million people of working age in the UK claiming some combination of benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This is excluding those of State Pension Age.
Can anyone see a problem of Labour's claim to getting everyone off benefits and into work?
More worried about massive corporations dodging their tax
We've found the dole dosser
@@paddy1144 You better pray karma doesn't send you a much needed lesson 😉
Why? at least they contribute to society, and will likely reinvest what they would have spent on tax in further growing the economy. The benefit scroungers are just a burden on society.
@@MrJeffHead How do they contribute? they pay little or no tax - pray you never get a disabling illness, although I do think it would be a great lesson for you.
@@petersavage9456 They employ lots of people. They pay lots of VAT, Employers N.I. They support lots of local businesses.
Lots of people with disabilities work, some very severe. When you see people like that working and then see 4th generation benefit scroungers and people fresh in the country claiming it makes you frustrated paying so much in tax.
The Government's attacks on disabled individuals through policies like the Work Capability Assessments (WCA) are already documented problems. These assessments were used to reclassify sick and disabled individuals as "fit for work," often leading to the withdrawal of benefits.
At the same the protection of disabled people's rights, freedoms, and liberties was taken away, frequently leading to dramatic or even tragic consequences.
Fraser Nelson, the narrator of this “investigative documentary” who “has been investigating this for years……. Blah blah blah”, has being doing other stuff for years: Nelson is a board director of the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, yes the very right wing conservative think tank. Additionally he was editor of The Spectator (he was succeeded by none other than Michael Gove, that other ….). In May 2018 he publishing a defence of German troops by Taki Theodoracopulos titled "In praise of the Wehrmacht" which said readers should feel sorry for Wehrmacht soldiers at Normandy. Not sure I would treat Mr Nelson’s views as being balanced or neutral.
Precisely. I think Channel 4 should be ashamed. This has really impacted my perception of the channels output from now onwards.
Well said. I can see the resemblance between Fraser Nelson and the Natzi or Soviet regimes' propaganda, which produced films and posters depicting people with different abilities as a burden on society. These materials often highlighted the cost of caring for disabled individuals and suggested that their existence was a drain on resources. They also seem to cherry-pick people for this documentary and misrepresent the facts.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has already faced significant scrutiny over deaths linked to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants. According to figures released by the DWP, 17,070 PIP claimants died between April 2013 and April 2018 while waiting for a decision on their claim. Additionally, 7,990 disabled people died within six months of their PIP claim being rejected during the same period.
According to a report by the National Audit Office, at least 69 suicides have been linked to problems with benefit claims over six years. However, the number is much higher, as the DWP has not actively sought information from coroners or families or investigated all reported cases. DWP systematically ignores official complaints regarding the abuse of their powers, hoping that people will die from being in distress or too sick to fight.
Thank you I have just checked him out on Wikipedia he certainly keeps nice company! Theodoracopulos's column "High Life" has appeared in British weekly The Spectator since 1977, where he wrote a series of controversial articles, including one claiming that black people had lower IQs than other people, for which Boris Johnson, made editor in 1999, later apologised.[8][9] He has also written for other US and UK publications, including Esquire, Hamptons Magazine, Newsweek, the New York Press, The Sunday Times, and Vanity Fair.[10]
In 1984, Theodoracopulos was arrested for the possession of cocaine, after attempting to board a plane at Heathrow Airport, and served three months in HMP Pentonville.[3][5] He documented his prison experiences in Nothing to Declare: Prison Memoirs (1991) and discussed them in an extended appearance ........
@@noramartin96@noramartin96 Wow, it explains a lot and shows his tendencies and real intentions. This so-called "documentary is dripping with misinformation and disgusting manipulation.
He also seems to think that general viewers of this soft totalitarian propaganda are low IQs who will not see how low and up to who's "behinds" his cocaine nose is this time.
I love how in your critique you've taken elements of the documentary and challenged the logic or the facts. Insightful.
Simple fix: For people who want to work, the govt should simply pay them the difference if the wages are less than the benefits they were getting. This will give people a sense of security, since they will be assured that their total income will be at least as much as the benefits they are currently getting
One of the big issues is that the nhs isn’t functioning. I was working full time up until 3 weeks ago where I was admitted into hospital . I had a stent put in and was sent home and told to wait for a surgery date. My body is struggling with the stent and it’s causing lots of pain and i am now struggling to walk without lots of pain. Spoken to my doctor who said they can’t do anything and I need to put up with it until I have the operation and can have the stent removed. God knows when I will get that operation . I feel like I’d rather die than go through this pain everyday for ever . My father’s been waiting for heart surgery for over 3 years !!!! I hope a kidney surgery for myself doesn’t take so long and now it’s the struggle to try and get some support while I currently can’t work 😢 I’ve been so confused because there where no symptoms and then suddenly it all hit me and I ended up becoming and emergency situation which had me spend an entire week in hospital. Unfortunately I’m one of the minority of people who have bad reactions to stents 😭
That sounds awful, I hope they’re able to get it sorted soon! I’m fed up of waiting around for appointments and tests, I’m one of the lucky ones who has been allowed to work from home so I still work full time but I still need lots of days off sick. Such a waste that a more organised NHS could solve!
Producers of this program seem to be in excellent cooperation with The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which has already faced significant scrutiny over deaths linked to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants. According to figures released by the DWP, 17,070 PIP claimants died between April 2013 and April 2018 while waiting for a decision on their claim. Additionally, 7,990 disabled people died within six months of their PIP claim being rejected during the same period.
These figures have raised serious concerns about the assessment process's impact on claimants' mental and physical health, leading to calls for reforms to ensure the system is more compassionate and supportive. Since then, not much change has been noted between disability rights advocates, activists, and claimants. Therefore, it is logical to conclude that DWP's introduction of new types of powers involving scrutinisation, investigations, and privacy rights violations will have further, more severe consequences not only for people with disabilities but also for their entire families and communities.
OMG I am truly horrified to hear this. I claimed PIP and it was only by a stroke of pure luck and the heavens smiling down on me that the assessor I got had the same condition and so I didn't need to convince her that I was telling the truth. She would know it reading my claim. But it shouldn't take luck to claim. I dread my 2 year review and how much I will have to fight.
I'm not quite sure why so many people believe that GPs decide who gets sickness benefit. On Universal Credit certainly, a person has to go through a Work Capability Assessment which is run by the DWP. The DWP decides in 100% of cases who gets sickness benefit and who doesn't. So it's a bit rich that you have people like Mel Stride castigating GPs when it's the DWP themselves who decide on sickness benefit.
Why not do a documentary on the huge profits of big companies and corporations, that are paying minimum wages on zero hours contracts, or the high cost of accommodation,
I say this from the perspective of a 56yo man with severe depression and times in life I haven't been able to work,, who's not been able to keep a house, now living in a van and trying to survive,, but unable to navigate any kind of benefits system,, it's too difficult,
Love the push from the comments on this video. We only ever hear one side of the story on the media, and I always love to see the British people push back against these old neoliberal narratives that only talks about the problems but never about the model that causes the problems to begin with. Families should be at the center of the macroeconomy not the markets, what we have is a system that’s prioritizing the well being of money over the well being of the people.
capitalism is the problem, it can only function if there is a large base of low paid workers, welfare only exists to stop the pitch forks.
right wing dirt who complain about "benefits cheats" are either liars or they are ignorant of how capitalism works.
full employment would be a catastrophic disaster for the rich, they don't want it, and they know it is their greatest lie.
'prioritizing the well being of money over the well being of the people.' - yes!
100%. I think the penny is dropping more and more, and we can all contribute by spreading the message far and wide. LOUDLY. This is a failed economic model that wreaks disgusting havoc upon a supposedly ‘developed’ economy. Why anyone would think that tying up huge swathes of wealth in illiquid and unproductive assets - like housing - is a good idea is mind boggling, This is the net result, skyrocketing sickness, low growth, high tax, unproductive, uncompetitive economy, The system is your enemy, make no mistake,
@@Azoz195 exactly, they treat an unproductive sector of the economy (the banking system) as if it’s the only thing that matters, what’s scary is like how they were so proud of the fact that they were attracting international investments to Britain, as if it’s needed, listen if the investment money is coming from outside you can be sure the gains from that investments are going to leave the country, it’s as if they are confusing money with capital, in the process of doing this they are also undermining the pound, it’s as if they don’t know that Britain, the Bank of England has the capacity to finance whatever capital is needed in the country. They pretend they don’t understand how monetary policy works, I gotta say the overall quality of the politicians is like some sick joke, any serious mid/long term investor would actually be afraid to invest in Britain watching the politicians talk, the only people who are happy are the speculators.
People are getting depressed because they see no way out of poverty, buying a house cost a fortune then all the bills to pay, not much to look foreward to
Gran's home was £1,ooo with a rose garden lawns hedges vegetable garden trees greenhouse long tarmac drive garage
Post traumatic stress disorder
TV used to be more inspirational and much better for mental health than it is now; we used to be allowed to have comedy and satire. Social media and all news services are now appalling for mental health.
How on earth can you make a documentary about long term sickness without discussing the critical state of our healthcare, lack of mental health services, and abysmal waiting lists?!
I know for a fact I wouldn't now be on sickness benefits myself if I'd had proper care in the last 2 years. This is a problem caused by the government not the people.
And no I don't want to be here on benefits, I would like to earn, have a nice house, be in a position to think about starting a family, and go on holiday thank you!
Mental Health care in the UK is absolutely abysmal. It's Victorian level bad. A guy I know went from working to being sick. When he was working, able to work, he earned 5X what he gets on benefits. He'd rather work, but can't manage it. Mental Health care, especially beyond being thrown a bag of pills, doesn't exist. And no, doing self-study via the internet is NOT a treatment. Do some people cheat? Yes, of course, you'll never totally eradicate it. But for those in need, what's the alternative?
No it is caused by all this unsustainable immigration.
Starting a family and going on holidays are luxuries of ppl who can afford them, so maybe park that until you can support it, not tax payers who strive for those things but also fund you
@johns1600 this is what I'm saying, I'm having to park this, and I shouldn't have had to if I had the right care from the start. I've paid taxes all my life until July this year so no need to make me feel bad about it, I don't want to be here! If I could work I absolutely would.
I completely relate and agree
It's just basic human psychology: If feeling sorry for oneself is encouraged, everyone starts feeling sorry for himself. If being strong and facing up even the hardest challenges is encouraged, then people find in themselves a strength the never imagined they had before.
The country went over the cliff years ago. It looked bad already before the Global Financial Crash. Then the gov spent £100bn to take over the banks, and another £600bn to recapitalise the same banks to get them lending again. Gov debt has ballooned ever since. We have been “lucky” in over 14 years in that the interest rate has remained low, why the gov hasn’t been too badly affected, but those days are now over, and if interest gets 10% just the interest on the govt debt will be £300bn (more than total cost of NHS).
The Automotive industry is dying, we haven’t prepared the country for ban of petrol/diesel, there is hardly any charging stations, and those in place rarely works. We buy ALL our energy as we gave/sold our ability to make it ourselves, our 28 water companies owes £100bn, and probably need another 100-200bn to sort all the waste water problems, train services are most expensive in Europe, and many in a pathetic state…
Economically inactive people are just a small problem in a much larger financial (pending) disaster…
Not to mention #Brexit. How 52% of population could think we could afford to live outside the union shows a lot about the level of financial acumen/skill by ordinary people. Well, they can only blame themselves…
It’s not all bad though. The circa 150 billionaires in the country have circa doubled their wealth since the Brexit referendum. Several has also since left the country… Dyson being one….
Read a news article a few days ago £900,000,000 DWP benefits go unclaimed each year......
Iceland and Portugal had far worse financial crashes then us. They did the right things. They are now florishing. We had this idiot with blonde hair going around protecting banks. He became PM.
Best comment on here 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 brilliant assessment. Should be shared far and wide as many just don’t get it.
yeh he went to singapore. just like brexit hero jim ratcliffe who makd the ineos grenedir 4x4... all british all the way.. got millions to develop land in wales... ended up building in france.
yeh the banking was why you had separate retail banks and separate merchant banks. that way casino banking would not destroy the economy. some bright spark decided to deregulate that as well as share buybacks. it was just over a decade from boom to bailout.
@CRingsing The Tories sold off the tax-payers' shares in the banks purchased by Brown's Labour Govt and, for less than we paid for them - quite unecessarily. Lovely jubbly for their City mates.
Some jobs just do not come with any respect, and that is reflected in how the companies treat these workers.
No respect for me.. no work from me. My motto.. 👍👍👍
Look at some job listings and check out the "perks" listed at the bottom. How often I see "free parking " as a perk is a joke 🤣
@@AnthonyD-yy2in No problem. 3rd world people like me coming in will work without no respect and climb up the social ladder by being smart with the earning. I was a cleaner(wages I got back then was £6.79) and then working smart I got out of the menial job pit by educating myself and getting a degree in theoretical physics and now I earn a not so bad wages and housing is no problem either.
You keep living by your motto of "No respect for me.. no work from me." and you wil rest in peace much like the Neandrethalensis when Homo sapien arrived into the European continent.
I like Darwin and love his theory. May the weak one parish and be replenished by hardier and more adapted breed and thus this speicie is made more stronger.
The loss of benefits pushed many disabled individuals into poverty. Studies have shown that nearly half of the poverty in the UK is directly associated with disability, as per research conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). Their report highlights that nearly half of everyone in poverty is either a disabled person or lives with a disabled person. This led to a sudden drop in income, making it difficult for people with disabilities to cover basic living expenses.
The stress and anxiety of losing benefits, coupled with the pressure to find work despite their health conditions, led to a decline in both mental and physical health for many individuals. Charities and support organisations noted increased demand for their services as more disabled individuals sought help with appeals, financial support, and mental health services. The assessments were criticised for being inaccurate and not considering the full extent of individuals' health conditions. This led to many wrongful reclassifications and subsequent appeals. These consequences highlight the DWP's policies' significant impact on the lives of disabled individuals and the broader implications for society.
This is wrong .if you get benefits abd disability benefits you are on as a good an income as a starter social worker about 1700 per month .disabled are not poor !!! Do turn 2us curves if you don’t believe me .if you are single and not disabled but on benefits then you will be on low income .the drinking hit has m h issues , spends his money on weed and drink .he is not poor but has m health issues bless him
Lost to the system
Get the money but not the help ,!! That’s the issue , lack of help for people .
Rich man who "talks" for a living thinks poor people are ruining the country .... Of course he does
Isn't the royal family on the dole
😆very good point!
The queen used to line up at the post office and get her pension every Monday 😂😂😂
@okLondon-v1e
They are allowed to do light work like cutting ribbons in between trips abroad.
In the financial year ending March 2024, the Crown Estate reported record profits of £1.1 billion, largely due to significant fees from offshore wind farm leases. These profits are paid directly to the UK Treasury, supporting public finances.
Pay a decent wage then people wouldn't rely on benefits
The minimum wage isn't enough
Due to the shortage of tradesmen,Plumbers and Sparks etc .Problem is kids drop out of apprenticeships. Get the skills to pay the bills.
How about reducing or completely eliminating the freebies, so that those who are able to work start working and paying their fair share ?
raising wages is an inflationary response - we need to cut costs instead for things like housing. But how is it fair that someone not working can earn £10k a year more than the average wage for the area. We need to help people get better and off benefits, but at the same time there are some that are taking advantage and its not clear what the balance is.
If there was an easy answer to the problem it would already be happening
Baby brother was _Northwest Engineering Trainee of the Year_ (me vomited daily due to stress of bad atmosphere of limited apprentice places) union got him full pay - he had a VW in days but he's still homeless after running his own firm with 10,000 customers 2008 destroyed (he was held back from any career progress in managed decline Manchester) - I only won the college Physics prize and did advance Maths a year early so 1984 they put me in a forced labour camp (all our family was depressed after BBC jailed our other brother who never saw the towers fall)
In the UK the wealth distribution is now worse than it was during the french revolution, the gap between our richest and poorest 10% is now, the US excepted, the highest in the developed world. And the rich will still be telling you its the fault of the poor people and you will still buy their papers and still be poor. Blame the poor, blame the immigrants who are poor not the literal people making our lives worse and who own both parties and the media, the oligarchs.
One of the bloke said he can’t work because is alcohol dependent - what a lot of bollocks !!!
I'm a disabled woman at 27 years old. I've been trying to get proper medical support since I fell ill around 8 years ago. I was chronically ill the entire time I was undertaking my law degree, and even flunked it at one point and had to resit a year. I would love to be able to work, to work hard to earn my place in society, to have a home, to have children, but the NHS has failed me time and time again. I have an autoimmune disorder that could be easily treated if I could only see a doctor regularly. It took around 7 months JUST to get a blood test because my GP surgery's blood test form printer was broken for non emergencies. What do you know, I finally get my blood tested and my medication needs to be put up. Just let me rot for another half a year before I can get that sorted out. I wish I didn't have to claim benefits.
I've got Degenerative Spinal Disease, I have arthritis, I get cramps during the day, I can't do anything physical like I used to, 10 years ago I was diagnosed with this and not once did they offer me the choice of surgery, I even got down on my knees and begged them to refer me but they wouldn't. I'd much prefer to be earning £500-1000 a week and contributing to the country's pot than be stuck on but ESA and PIP and, despite known scientific benefits of medical cannabis, which was legal for medical use since 2017, they refuse me but they'd rather fill my gut full of dirty pharma! Because they make money off of prescribing us it, they're paid to and there's nothing we can do about it, it pisses me off so much! £40k it is for the surgery and what's the bill for all of the pharma over 10 years?
Axy spondy?
Maybe book "Goodbye Lupus by Brooke Goldner" will be able to help you with your condition?
I have PTSD from growing up with extremely abusive parents and also parenting induced ADHD. I've been using cannabis on a daily basis for over 27 years and I struggle with regular mood swings throughout the day every day. I have feet problems which cause me a lot of pain in my whole left side of the body, from my big toe all the way up to my neck. The pain restricts my mobility and I struggle to move on a daily basis. I have two auto immune conditions which I'm aware of and suffer with their symptoms.
I have 4 university degrees, including a law degree and 2 master degrees. I've been working through my life and I started having a summer job when I was 11 years old. I workout every day, keep fit and stretch regularly. I have a successful business and often work 12+ hours a day and haven't claimed a single penny from the government apart from child benefit. I own 2 houses and one was paid off completely after 8 years. I'm 49 now. Grow up and get a job. Probably your auto immune condition and mental health will improve rapidly. Just saying you know.
@charliebrown6455 what an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. People with auto immune conditions are often seriously disabled with physical symptoms all over the body. Not self inflicted by smoking cannabis every day straight for 27 years either.
Do some research on the different types of arthritis and then come back to me before spouting your uninformed bigoted nonsense.
You think because you can cope with/smoke away your "PTSD" you can belittle people like this? Grow up.
The punitive nature of the benefits system does nothing to alleviate mental health issues.
Sanctioning over 1,000,000 to no food - no doctor has ever prescribed that (well not after 1940s)
Benefits street mark 2. Fraser Nelson has no interest in helping the people who need help in our society.
Exactly.. Shame on Channel 4 for profiling disability benefit claimants as workshy.
Yep, seems like a hit piece on those claiming benefits, how is the media allowed to make such discrimination documentaries? I'm happy to pay a little more on my wages to help folks on benefits, it's totally un-British to kick a man while he's down shame on Fraser Nelson making a hit piece. Yesterday, it was letting granny freeze today the disabled this Gov is racing to the bottom. Unbelievable Liz Kandel sitting down with this guy seems kind of it all being orchestrated by the Gov and their mates in the media.
Nelson is just another soulless Tory boy😡
definitely.. there are so many patient groups they could have requested interviewees from.. people with genuine conditions that are too sick too work,@Smith-n7n
yeh its ironic .... the poor, less well educated and vulnerable people are .... easier targets for cambridge educated elites to portray as lazy moochers.
"Of course I want to work again."
Do you want to work now?
"No."
Well, that just about sums it up.!
Exactly what i thought
The main issue is people are only earning about £1900 a month full time and millions of folk are paying over 1k of that on rent my rent is 385 a month for council they need to either make landlords rents cheaper or start paying full rent benefit my LHA is 485 a month the cheapest private rent in my area i could find was 1k its crazy the other issue is people want to stay in a nice area and are willing to pay what ever to live there
Hold on, where do you live? Central London? A double room in London goes for £600-£800
Mr journalist, with due respect to you, I’m 70 years old, I cried at night while I was working and receiving pip, I suffer mega depression, anxiety and panic attacks and have spondiloarthropathy, in constant pain, medication to fill my belly to assist my condition and many more other ailments, I don’t feel guilty claiming even when I worked, I’ve attempted a few times to take my own life to escape the reality of my quality of life. I would challenge any healthy person like yourself to walk in my shoes and then have a discussion with you and how my conditions affected you. But I wish you the best of luck with your health going forward.
That's terrible, I hope u are getting some relief from your ailments, god love you. Life can be so hard sometimes
I totally understand and my mum suffers with a muscle degeneration and deserves it too, but there is no denying that some people cheat the system and mess it up for the people who really need it.
My friend, hope your get better. You absolutely deserve the help and this program is not aimed at you. But to those abusing the system.
I wish you the best of luck too must be so hard to deal with
This breaks my heart to read and I'm sorry you have experienced such pain. Sending you a big hug.
Narrated by someone who always likes to punch down, never up. So very brave.
He's speaking up for the ppl working hard in challenging times to fund the nearing 10% of the workforce off work and funded by those working and struggling
When they talk about all these available jobs they don’t mention that they are highly qualified degree level positions. Or they are very physical jobs that require walking and lifting. There are very few at home positions that offer a living wage and not just commissions. Given a choice between a disabled and non-disabled person an employer will go with the one who gives the value at the cheapest cost. Tell the whole truth
Who can live off of the wages they are offering unless you living at home with your mum and dad and don't have to contribute. Notice that he didnt mention that but was harping on about benefits being easier, and how do we know thats what the applicant said why didnt they interview him.
So you would rather live on freebies ? Thereby abusing the system which is meant to help those who are not able to work.
What about the working class people who are working their backs off to make a living ? What if everyone sits at home complaining about the stress the job is causing? Every job causes stress and anxiety - that’s why it’s called “work”. That doesn’t mean one refuses to work.
@@fezaannazar4081 Stress and anxiety are absolutely not the definition of work, its just become this way due to businesses underpaying and overworking people.
Working is not supposed to make you ill, which stress and anxiety by definition does.
@@fezaannazar4081 You don't understand it on a fundamental level, if everyone on this earth did not have to work.. they wouldn't. Would be human nature; secondly that means that to work requires a incentive. Work had an incentive for a long time; now the gap has gotten smaller, with the cost of living and other issues.
You say what about the working class; working their backs off to make a living?? And?? what about them, they get up everyday KNOWING that they get shafted day in and day out, Some for so-called national duty and or pride.
Both of which has declined over the last decade, even longer. The youth of this country were never taught nationalism, because government happily tore it down every chance they got; secondly there's nothing prideful about going out to work, to generate taxes for the government; under a sense of nationalism, for it then to go outside the borders of this country.. and it does; so much of it. And while we are it, watch it get spent on illegals and everywhere else.
The problem is the working class; shaming every which way, hoping everyone boards the same train as they do; regardless of whether the system is broken beyond repair. It's why there's a generational hatred towards the likes of millennials/gen Z. because they aren't stupid they know what is up. In short, the incentive to work was lost a while ago, when wages slipped.. now it will never be found, when the natives watch their taxes and what they 'contribute' get wasted on illegals and everyone else apart from them.. while also having no increase in wages and quality of life.
And good on them; Maybe the Government will start to care when the benefits spent will be 100b, because it is at 60b.. right now. And they aren't batting an eye.
So jobcentreplus is failing to deliver? Some might reasonably argue that it was all planned this way. For a start the contractor delivering the assessments tend to employ healthcare professionals less qualified than the the GPs of the claimants. Surely that is untenable within a duty of care.
No nurse with morals would take part in work assessment. Normal go after the ill not the billionaires, I been assessed as fit to work twice, and both time I lost PIP for six months while I tokje DWP to tribunal twice because you can not asses health over one phone call. Doctors have to constantly fight to keep me getting support, because DWP always assess as fit to work when you are not, I have a disability which effects my daily living and mental health. Because keep you shit together for 20 minute phone call vs 8 hour working day it is a big different.
I think having some guarantee to know your income will be secure would go a big way to coaxing people back to the workplace. Say if there was a promise that if you got laid off within a year of finding a job, you could re-apply for your previous level of benefits and have them reinstated with no long, drawn-out process, that would give people the security they need to risk transitioning back to the workplace without going destitute.
What’s the point in people working? There is absolutely no incentive! Full ridiculously high rent, full council tax, full payment for childcare, full payment for glasses, dentist and medication prescriptions and absolutely no spare money!! Imagine waking up every morning to spend all your life at work, missing out on family and life, just to barely cover your overheads. The government has a lot to answer for.
If everyone thought like that the country would collapse 😱
I mean really collapse 10 times worse than we have it now
If you are working what you get depends on income.
I would give everyone free eye tests and glAssews I think who find fewer people gi g blind also eyetezts can pick up others. Eg diabetes in their early stahes
Go on benefits then and let everyone else go to work and pay for you that's if you have no pride of course
@@deanosaur808 No it would not collapse. More likely the rich would come to the conclusion they would have to spread more of their obscene wealth around and employers desperately needing jobs done would have to get their finger out and get people that want to work for them other than simply the sole motivating factor being a job or starvation
@@Gibbo1 You do realize almost half of those on UC are in work? And the reason they are still on benefits and can't sign off is that big companies are using the benefits system which is paid for by your taxes to subsidize their shitty pay and conditions?
I’d rather pay money towards people unable to work or young single parents directly instead of paying all them wages for ‘civil servants’ to choose who gets or doesn’t get paid. I’d stop topping up low wages to force big companies to pay proper wages instead of taking unbelievable profits, paying peanuts and letting other productive earners pick up the tab, basically paying the likes of amazon welfare
OMG, your comment melted my heart. I used to be judgemental about people on benefits, as you only hear about the ones that cheat the system, until it happened to me. All I would need to be able to FUNCTION BETTER and go back to work is medication for my ADHD.
With corporations pumping the food, air, water with toxic chemicals the number of people with long term untreatable chronic conditions will continue to increase, this is what needs looking at
absolutely
Plus the Jabba-roo.
Why gov does not encourage working but it give to people just because they dont like to work .
I get minimum wage around 1500£ a month and I know other people that have their house paid and reduce in bills and extra money for food .It is unfair for us working class .we are the engine of the country
It's formidable the amount of people on Benefits that want to work but when attempting or thinking about work their benefit money gets struck off. If they could continue to receive their benefit while testing the working environment for 2/3 months that would act as a proper springboard to help people to jump out of the benefit system.
Absolutely agree
@@Wally-555 Your name is wally, but I suggest going & reading how esa & pip is assessed.PIP is an in work benefit for those who are disabled,it lets them keep working while also having support to manage an ongoing health condition,& knowing they can take time off work for treatments or for illness reasons, but it's almost impossible to commit disability fraud.If you read my post you will be shocked at who most of the benefits bill goes to & it isn't disabled people.
That's another scam waiting to happen. Someone would " test the waters" for 2 months, earning benefits plus pay, then decide work isn't for them at that time and go back home. After a month they are back to testing the waters and quitting after 2 months.
People will always abuse the system, so the only answer is to be harsh and force people to work. In the 19th century people were forced into work as it was the "morally right" thing to do, as not being productive leads to the devil or some bullshit.
Now in the 21st century, we've taken the absolute opposite and seem to be of the position that you should be able to choose to live without work and either end up in the same or better circumstance than someone who is working.
I have always been of the opinion that the biggest driver for people to work is hunger.
Its all game theory. How much does a minimum wage job need to be above benefits, before work becomes attractive, and how many people are on benefits because its easier, than working.
Like FFS we're in a digital age. We have people who are bed bound who are Vtubers and making hundreds of thousands.
We have thousands of jobs you can do if you are disabled, its just getting them into the right job for their disability if legitimate.
And ofc there will always be a portion of people who are too disabled to work, but this is such a small amount compared to what we currently have classified as not fit to work.
@Serfdomftw some good points you make, but do you have a disability? If not then I question you're authority on this. I work as much as I can being disabled. It's not just about what I can do, which is writing annual reports for companies, it's about how often I get exhausted. I have a colostomy amd severe scoliosis. However I do agree that many people could find at least partial employment if the government invested in training. Forcing people is not the right thing to do unless their reasons are not legitimate.
I thought channel 4 had learnt its lesson about poverty porn with benefits street. No public broadcaster should be adding fuel to the fire to already a hostile environment which sees those receiving social security vilified and blamed for failed policies of the government.
those people were absolute scumbags, who just didnt want to work. point blank .
I got ADHD, depression, stress, anxiety, but I have been working all my life..
Me too plus physical health conditions but can't do it anymore. Work killed me off
Good for you. As a person with ADHD, you should also know that ADHD affects each person differently and late diagnosed and not treated ADHD leads to several serious health problems. Not to mention that this documentary is very misleading and deflects from issues behind the scenes regarding the government's recent proposal in the Autumn Budget to give DWP investigators the right to access and scrutinise the bank accounts of those who claim benefits, espetially those with disabilities. Today, people with disabilities. Tomorrow, everyone's ADHD or not.
Good for you.
@@littlemissgroove I want to get back to work properly but covid seems to have been a straw that broke the camel's back. Rubbish services, impossible benefits system, a government that hates me. Starmer can crack the whip all he wants but he's not getting blood out of a stone.
Where is all of your land - your bit of 60,000,000 acres? Don't worry only £57,OOO,OOO,OOO more interest to pay for the _rain_ before it goes up again
Forget the documentary the comments have a far greater understanding of the situation.
Exactly. No need to watch the documentary enough to scroll down and read all these shocking comments. Would be interesting to see if these people actually know who is paying for all this, they seem to think it's the government and not the few of us that actually go to work every day .. WORKING PEOPLE! If we all decided to live off benefits there would be no benefits to live off.
They are talking about people taking the mick with sick notes but people are going to have mental health issues when they can't afford bills in this country.
I worked in retail for Iceland and Lidl for over a decade, I've been off work now for almost two years, I claimed nothing for over 6 months of being sacked (illegally) I had no savings to support me during this time and have burdened my friends and family ever since, my mental health has spiraled drastically ever since, I will never work in retail ever again! I have no idea what I'm going to do I've currently been kicked off univeral credit because I'm just completely disfunctional on a daily basis struggle with any dead lines, I think I'm mostly past the point of caring.
Please seek help with CAB and food banks. Research ADHD and Autism and burnout. Go to the GP for help. Do not give up.
Give yourself credit for sticking to those jobs for years, a lot of people dont have that resolve. And since you do have it, you have potential. I've cleaned toilets in factories even been a litter picker on a tip, you just have to think that although now might seem sh!t, the future doesn't have to be. But it will require you to believe that theres something positive ahead and follow the things that inspire you in gradual steps. Even if you don't have the funds you can go to Uni and get a scholarship to pay fees if you show potential and confidence. I just did and I'm in my 40's. People act like there's no prospects in the UK, but they'd think differently if they were raised in poverty in South America, Africa, India or Asia. Just being in the UK everyone has a massive privalage, many people around the world are living in abject poverty and war zones. Good luck and don't lose hope.
Two years looking for work I have applied to over 1500 jobs and only had two interviews and one of them hired me as temp for three months, I am not claiming any benefits never did but spending 9 months looking for work to work only three months it’s not worth so I don’t blame the people claiming anything they can, the country is broken.
If you have applied for that many jobs and not getting interviews im guessing your cv needs work or you are applying for jobs above your skill level.
Do volunteer roles to get expirence or make yourself more employable with education
You applied for 1500 jobs & you haven’t got one? Definitely need to sort your CV out or your applying for jobs you don’t have the skills for. Phone up & send CV to some work agencies in your area by email maybe 5 or 10. You should be getting offered multiple jobs within a couple days. Every time I’ve done this in a new area, I’ve been offered at least 10-20 jobs within the week even after telling them how much I want to earn.
@@6figzz My cv was done by a professional. I got my skill levels but all I get is one day of work here and then nothing for weeks. For this year I’ll have just over three months of work so at the end of the day what is better constantly looking for work and stressing about it or just claim whatever you can. There is not that much work as to what the government is shouting left right and centre.
I'd like to know how illegalls here with no papers etc are doing security work even though it requires 10 checkable work history & who if they even have one paid for their SIA licence 🤔🤨😡
Channel 4 and the BBC, dont know who is the worst propaganda machine. shameful.
When the guy says "that can literally shorten your life" he isn't getting it, some of us don't care, that's ideal, we are that depressed we don't care if we have a shorter life
ALso the NHS can't prescribe drugs that work for anxiety anymore, I'd gladly work if I could hve diazepam to work, I can't though can I, so I'm stuck this way
@@lapetusXinteresting how the UK has more people refusing to work because they got bad mental health, yet the Syrian parents that lost their child are back in work the week after or taking up arms.
@@lapetusX Diazapam is an awful drug! I was on it for 2 years and only really worked for a couple of months on the prescribed dose!! It was hell coming off!!!
Check weekly wage for unskilled labour and weekly rent for a one bed flat in the same area.
I was curious, so I just checked.
UK minimum wage £12.21 * 40hrs = £488 per week.
1 bedroom fully furnished flat: £144 per week.
@Louis16261 then you gotta take off £80 for tax, then most likely water, gas, electric and Internet/phone as 600 a month is too low for all bills included. Then food, transport and clothing. Now because you're earning "enough" you don't get free dental nor do you have the time to go to places because you're working when everything is open and off when it's closed.
@@Louis16261 - then take away tax, NI, utility bills, travel costs to work and if you have dependents,their school dinner money, bus money. Council tax, food shop.
@@Louis16261 Not a great example. However, if you add in all the extra expenses that immediately land hard on the wage earner then there isn't much left to make a job the route to hope. You'd have to really, really love the job and not have anything else in your life or anything else you want, forever. We're not generating the types of jobs people can fall in love with, any more. It's all gone a bit tertiary in the UK. Few people can hope to make the world better and that's a basic human need whether we admit it to ourselves or not. People without a sense of their worth get sick. We need to feel we are doing something worthwhile.
UK minimum wage is £11.44
April 2025 it goes up to £12.21.
Well done to the people in the comments who can see through this hit piece propaganda which is blaming the sick and disabled while the rich have never had it so good.
I'm of the belief that our economy will be saved with housing reform. Every economic argument I try to figure out always comes back to housing. The government have made some changes to alleviate this but no where near what's required.
Housing and immigration appears to be the root cause of many problems.
Sick of seeing these documentaries constantly as it just constantly reaffirms this idea everyone is lazy and bums. Have a look into tax dodging and how much people on the top end of things get. Politicians are a great start. Stop villianising the people at the bottom of the chain
I see royals as lazy and dodgy. They cost a lot and receive inappropriate benefits. Apart from the cheap magazines, no one needs them.
Employers need to start being more flexible for example for people with low mobility! Some jobs can be done from home…. But employers want to drag people back into the office for no reason
Something I am honestly curious about is, as I know nothing about this but why are sick benefits all or nothing? So if Amy is only able to earn £25k why is it not the case that sickness benefits top up her income £10k to the £35k she needs? As opposed to dropping to £0 if she works.
I not an expert but I am sure if she wasn't earning enough they help financially especially with stuff like rent. Not sure where she got that from. Edit: maybe she's just be misinformed or she's terrified of what might happen.
if you work, they use it against you at your next assessment "well if you can work you can't be THAT much in pain"
@@piddlydiddly Pretty much what puts many off doing voluntary work which is probably their best course of action to gaining references; an aspect virtually always overlooked in such documentaries.
The system penalises the working class basically. Because those claiming the benefits puts pressure on working class resulting in them paying nearly half of what they earn in taxes. Government needs to find money to fund the scroungers and the easiest option is to increase taxes, making life harder for working people, when, like you said, they can’t claim a penny simply because they are working, it totally nuts, I agree.
she doesnt need 35k to live on thats a joke. she was hardly even using that walking stick
Get Britain working again? What jobs? Thanks to previous governments we have outsourced all trade… no steel mills.. no mines… we are a nation of service industries.. caring for the elderly for just above minimum wage.. delivery driving… taxi driver… cafe work.. seasonal jobs… people don’t want to exist on 0 hour contracts scraping a survival… we are on the brink of WW3 and I’m still trying to comprehend what would we actually be fighting for? A country that doesn’t fight for its own people.
You're fighting to reduce the national population and the national population of the other side.
That's how you reduce the mounting problems.
I'm not going. I refuse.