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Old 06-25-2016, 08:18 AM  
Paul Markham
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The welfare state is a big part of British family life, with 20.3 million families receiving some kind of benefit (64% of all families), about 8.7 million of them pensioners. For 9.6 million families, benefits make up more than half of their income (30% of all families), around 5.3 million of them pensioners. The number of families receiving benefits will be between 1 and 2 million fewer now because of changes to child tax credits that mean some working families who previously got a small amount now get nothing.
Forget about pensioners. Study the rest.

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Out of the some six million people claiming benefits in the UK, the DWP said in January 2012 that 371,000 people claiming working-age benefits were non-UK nationals. It also added that among that number, 258,000 were non-EEA nationals.
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1. In-work benefits for the low paid are generous in the UK compared to other countries in the EU15 and may act as a much stronger pull factor towards Britain than to other member states.
In work benefits enables companies to employ people on low wages and pass the cost onto the taxpayer. some of the worse low payers are those who bank overseas in tax havens.

The problem is with the great economic benefits of the EU.



Forget the Bank crash, that was 8 years ago and they're doing fine. The problem is George Osbourne isn't able to cut enough to balance the books while mass migration continues.

And you think he should building houses for people who can't afford to pay for them.

This is why so many voted out and will take the short hit to get their standard of living back up again.
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