[Cherie]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Not as many as the media would have us believe there are,and the vast majority of people on benefits were once working and later circumstances such as redundancies,loss of jobs or severe ill health forced them out of work and into benefits.
They often had the so called luxuries before they became unemployed or ill, yet people begrudge them the idea of even having just an up to date TV.

Yet while annoyance rears its head on this issue of tax avoidance or evasion, the same hard condemnation against that greed does not surface like it does for someone on benefits who may have a computer or good quality TV, no matter the circumstances.

The last estimation on a benefits programme was on a Channel 4 programme with Richard Bacon indicated that the benefit claimants making fraudulent or wrong claims was an extremely small number indeed.

This Panama list has hundreds of thousands to millions on it I understand,yet gets nothing like the scorn that a benefit cheat may get,when in fact that is exactly what these people are doing, who already have the wealth to do so, cheat the system.

Like at lot of people I was genuinely appalled at the tax credits and PIP proposed cuts, forgive me for not feeling the same for the example brought into this thread about the woman with 8 kids. I don't know why people aren't as outraged as others would like them to be on this issue, maybe people are just fed up or busy with life