[Tom4784]

I did the maths, with the benefit cap in place the maximum a single person can claim in benefits for a year is £18,200 (£350 a week) and that's the maximum, a family can claim up to £26,000 (500 a week) a year. Once again, these are the maximum rates for multiple different benefits. The average amount you'll get yearly from JSA is around £3697 (£71 a week) as of last year.

Remember that very few people will claim enough different benefits to hit the cap and the cap is only lifted for certain benefits like Disability or Military Based benefits. So basically, the only way you're gonna claim more is if you qualify for it.

These tax evaders are hiding away millions in taxable money, just a few of them paying the proper amount of tax would cover a lot of people who are reliant on benefits.

People on benefits aren't draining the state, it's the arseholes who won't pay their taxes that are the real issue here.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I did the maths, with the benefit cap in place the maximum a single person can claim in benefits for a year is £18,200 (£350 a week) and that's the maximum, a family can claim up to £26,000 (500 a week) a year. Once again, these are the maximum rates for multiple different benefits. The average amount you'll get yearly from JSA is around £3697 (£71 a week) as of last year.

Remember that very few people will claim enough different benefits to hit the cap and the cap is only lifted for certain benefits like Disability or Military Based benefits. So basically, the only way you're gonna claim more is if you qualify for it.

These tax evaders are hiding away millions in taxable money, just a few of them paying the proper amount of tax would cover a lot of people who are reliant on benefits.

People on benefits aren't draining the state, it's the arseholes who won't pay their taxes that are the real issue here.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I did the maths, with the benefit cap in place the maximum a single person can claim in benefits for a year is £18,200 (£350 a week) and that's the maximum, a family can claim up to £26,000 (500 a week) a year. Once again, these are the maximum rates for multiple different benefits. The average amount you'll get yearly from JSA is around £3697 (£71 a week) as of last year.

Remember that very few people will claim enough different benefits to hit the cap and the cap is only lifted for certain benefits like Disability or Military Based benefits. So basically, the only way you're gonna claim more is if you qualify for it.

These tax evaders are hiding away millions in taxable money, just a few of them paying the proper amount of tax would cover a lot of people who are reliant on benefits.

People on benefits aren't draining the state, it's the arseholes who won't pay their taxes that are the real issue here.

The other issue as to the full welfare spending is also often overlooked in that the vast majority of it goes on pensions and pensioners extras immaterial of what wealth any of those pensioners have,except for Pension credit.

When calls are made to reduce welfare spending and the govt view is not to touch pensioners at all, then the only people who can be hit are the sick, disabled, most vulnerable and jobless.
Where really in all truth as you have pointed out, there are no really big pickings to take anything from them that could be, or are fair and just in any form.

Unlike rooting out and getting due taxes which have been evaded or avoided from such as those on this Panama list who have massive means at their disposal.