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This is a terrible situation, since two unpleasant things are true at once: the benefits system is riddled with fraudulent claims and mismanagement, but there are also people with genuine disabilities who absolutely rely on these benefits.
The benefits system, relying as it does on privatisation from top to bottom, haemorrhages cash, this is truth.
Go find out how much actual cash goes in.
Then find out how much of that actually ends up in claimants' hands.
Then, finally, realise the scale of the problem.
Did you know that if you're renting, you can get that rent paid by benefit?
That rent goes to a landlord who uses that rent to pay the mortgage on the property, maintain it (lol), and some profit.
If, however, you "own" your home and are responsible for paying the mortgage and maintenance, the best you can get is a loan to cover the interest only. You must pay this loan back with interest if/when you sell your home.
They'll happily pay over the odds for "rent" costs to landlords, but they won't pay less than that to you for your mortgage.
They're happy to pay a mortgage, just not to you, the benefit claimant.
The whole system is rigged to take from the poorest and filter it all to those who have more than enough.
Even if that's true it doesn't stop them needing the money
The problem here is landlords not benefit claimant's
Get rid of landlords, they can simply sign on
I didn't in any way intend to imply those needing help are to blame. To leave no room for misinterpretation of my personal position on landlords:
Property speculation and "landlording" should be outlawed.
That wasn't the point of my comment though. The point is that the benefits system will pay landlords to pay for the house you live in, but they won't pay you directly even though it's cheaper.
The system insists on the parasite class being involved.