Benefits caps?....

If someone were to say that a household received £26,000 worth of benefits , to many, that may sound like an awful lot..

Maybe, some get a little more...

However, it is worth remembering that claimants actually see very little of that, and live on an average of about £67 per week for a single unemployed person over 25...but what then will need to come out of that is electricity, food, transport costs, gas, clothes and anything,and everything else ..the rest will be paid directly on housing benefit, and council tax benefits etc

My point is... it’s not really a lot of money..

What I would say is that ... it’s something...

It's alleged that at present , the government ( as part of the welfare reform bill) wants to put a cap on household benefits at £26.000

There are those who say benefits end the incentive for claimants to find work, but I’m not sure if that’s true...
Benefits enable people to survive... people who without it... would suffer greatly
Still...they were never intended to remove the desire for a person to find work... to remove the motivation, the self respect that people often gain from working...
(so if that has happened, it does need addressing)

Yet I’m still not quite sure it is 'the benefits' that do that.

It may make it easier, but the real barriers to employment are often emotional and psychological
Yes we have barriers such as low skills, no qualification illiteracy, not being able to afford to survive on a salary offered etc... But again, that's not about benefits...
There are times when it feels as though we are witnessing the creation of modern day ‘workhouses’ where labour is essential to receive 'welfare'... and tales I’ve heard of workhouses are usually unpleasant..
Oddly enough... many people in receipt of benefits would love nothing more than to be off them...