Why Work? Welfare addiction in handout hungry UK
Nearly one in eight british households has no-one in work accordin to a study that ranks the UK as the worst amongst the biggest EU countries.
Part of the blame is being put on a welfare system that means the unemployed can be better off on benefits.
But, as Laura Emett reports, even though the government wants to force people off welfare and into work, the jobs just aren't there.
Once a seat of an empire, now a holder of an unwanted unemployment [acclade(?)], new figures reveal the Uk has the highest number of households in any of the EU's larges economies in wich no-one works.
It ammounts to over eleven per cen of homes. Long term unemloyment is groving as a proportion of total unemloyment.
But a bigger problem is perhaps, hidden from the official unemloyment statistics and that is the proportion of workless households in Britain, so one sixth of all children for example grow up in workless households, wich is the highest figure in Europe by some measure.
Thirtynine years old Sandra Hake has never had a job. She had her first child sixteen and went onto three more. None of the fathers is around. Sandra gets the equivalent of more than twenty thousand dollar a year in benefits but she says its barely enough to stay afloat.
I didn't want to do anything, I'm just existed. Doing [evidence(?)], because I can't go anywhere, can't do anything with the kids [...(?)].
Sandra also gets incapacity benefit because of a problem with her legs. She admits that many people less able than her do go out to work, but the countries generous benefit system means it's often more lucrative to stay at home than to get a job.
Critics of that system also say that dependency culture is passed from from one generation to the next. Sandra is a grandmother at thirtynine with the state's paying for her granddaughter nursery care while her daughter goes to collage.
She talkes of the moment she found out that her daughter was pregnant at seventeen. Devastated... devastated, because she's just got a closing collage and then it's turned out that she is pregnant.
My children keep asking me what we gonna do when i'm older. Well I'm already old to anything.
Its a circle of the [cash...(?)] government is trying hard to break as it tries to save money, but that's a tricky balancing act between protecting the vulnerable and not allowing people to take advantage of the system.
We changed [...(?)] stick. The conditionalities if you don't accept the reasonable job offer, it's got to be the case that you can't go claim benefits [...(?)] every other tax [...(?)] picking up the bill.
The government's taking steps to address the problem of the long term unemloyed by restricting the ammount of benefits that anyone in the family can claim and making more [...(?)] tests and checks on people who wants incapacity allowance. But many of the people those reforms are aimed at have never worked. And the big question is in a crisis hit economic climate are there any jobs for them to go to. Laura Emmett, RT, London.
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