Removal Of Bonus Benefits.

[WBA123]

Agreed in the main but it doesn't answer my real question.

Single mothers with 4/5/6+ children FFS.

Interviewing people like this on TV makes a mockery of what benefits are designed to do.

I have a situation ( or two ) within my own family in this regard.

I have two of my three children who in many families would be on benefits due to their predicament/situation etc.

Neither claim benefits......why is that you might ask?

Me and the wife support both of them completely, no universal credit or any other benefit.

More families should help their own in my opinion but i really do dislike feckless waste and there's far too much given to people who simply want to sit on their a r s e s and who don't deserve this money, they are robbing the truly needy.

I don't look at anyone on Universal Credit and think 'I'd swap my life for yours' even if they are abusing the system.

I actually think - 'I feel sorry for you and your children'.

We waste a lot of money in this country, we spent billions on a T&T system that doesn't work effectively. We are spending billions on HS2, which I think could be money spent better in other areas. We spent hundreds of millions on PPE equipment in the pandemic that was not fit for purpose.

Is giving a single mother with multiple children an extra £20 per week really what we should be focusing on? It comes down to priorities, my view is that I think there's far more extravagant wastage in this country than this.