Benefits Britain

One other big difference was that there were jobs available for all – including disabled at places like Remploy.

The public sector could also soak up jobs, making sure people worked rather than being on benefits. The low benefit rates were set at subsistence rate to reflect that ideology.

Now we have the situation of far fewer jobs, and instead of creating jobs in the public sector which would at least drag some tax revenue in, as well as getting the young into a work ethic, recent Governments have failed to see that you can’t run a country on business lines, and that forcing people to work longer for their pensions means that there is a log-jam of jobs for the young.

Which means you end up in a spiral of the benefits culture, which didn’t exist in 1949.

one of the worst things about benefits i remeber seeing was a pensioner (millionaire)
getting winter fuel payments
when asked how he would spend it he replied laughing ill spend it playing golf
benefits should only be for the real hard up not those that have
benefits system needs to be scrapped and thought out again
another point that bugs me even more when a mp retires they get the same income untill they die as they got for being in parliament
why like everyone else cant they live of a state pension
has for the royals them parasites piss me off goods style

It is quite probably that the effort and costs that it would take to means tests the old would outweight the cost of paying those that dont need it. Most people would criticise the red tape in government, but when removed it still causes problems. I suspect once the facts were known then it would be easier to make a decision.