Sentences with phrase «life on benefits»

One area where the report suggests the government has been successful is in making life on benefits harder than for those in work.

I was always living on benefits at the time and it was very difficult.

They have suffered most from the recession — much more than higher earners or those households living on benefits.

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits that the average family gets from going out to work.

When collectors call looking for payment from you, you can explain your current financial situation and that you are living on benefits alone.

«The problem of some people living on benefits when they are able to work» (along with «Britain's overall level of debt») is one of the few things that many people think would be worse today had Labour won in 2010.

This applies whether your clients are billionaires or are living on benefits in social housing...

If a family living on benefits wants their adult child to stay living at home they are actually penalised — as soon as that child does the right thing and goes out to work.

The former work and pensions secretary believes that that the director has painted an unrealistic picture of life on benefits by focusing on «the very worst of anything that can ever happen to anybody».

David Cameron has defended the Government's welfare changes saying living on benefits has become a «lifestyle choice» for some.

Unsecured loans offered exclusively to people living on benefits are available.

Having premiered in Directors» Fortnight in May this year, the follow - up to the LA - set Sundance hit Tangerine (2015) wowed critics and punters alike with its sometimes joyously anarchic, sometimes harrowing story of a young single mother (newcomer Bria Vinaite) and her little girl (Brooklynn Prince) living on benefits in a motel just south of the Disney World resort in Orlando.

Most people don't voluntarily choose a life on benefits.

But fairness is also about being fair to the person who leaves home every morning to go out to work and sees their neighbour still asleep, living a life on benefits.

Polls show the public share Osborne's prejudice against «scroungers», the «neighbour still asleep, living a life on benefits», as Osborne put it today.

Allegations of «poverty porn» have been levelled at these programmes that often portray individuals who are feckless, irresponsible, unwilling to «help themselves» out of poverty and are happy to live a life on benefits.

It means never writing off people who can work and consigning them to a life on benefits, but giving them the chance to go out and earn a living and to enjoy the dignity that comes with a job well done.

«Fairness is about being fair to the person who leaves home every morning to go out to work and sees their neighbour still asleep, living a life on benefits,» he told MPs.

At last year's party conference the chancellor, George Osborne, said: «Where is the fairness, we ask, for the shift - worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next - door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits.»

The BBC reported that the voter had denied being racist — but he had referred to a Polish family in the area who he thought were living on benefits.

In his conference speech, Cameron added young people to his list of scapegoats when he implied that they are in their droves leaving school, getting knocked up and opting for a life on benefits, as he outlined his plan to remove housing benefit for those under 25s not in employment, education or training.

Taking more money from the man who goes out to work long hours each day so the family next door can go on living a life on benefits without working - is that fair?

In the debate on welfare changes, the government has championed hard working families against those it says are «sleeping off a life on benefits».

«Our reforms will mean that people are always financially better off in work; people will no longer be trapped in a life on benefits.»

This suggests they are actively choosing a life on benefits and need a kick up the backside to go out and get a job.

«In reality, we are just restoring the original principles of the welfare state: that those who can work must work, and a life on benefits must not be more attractive than working.»

In an interview with the Observer, Ms Reeves said: «Nobody should be under any illusions that they are going to be able to live a life on benefits under a Labour government.

We're reforming welfare so that it always pays to get a job and we build a culture that that commits everyone to work, not a life on benefits.

«Broadly the people who are doing a bit better out of [the autumn statement] are pensioners and people in work who are paying basic rate tax,» while those at the very top and those living on benefits lost out from the changes.

He said this was necessary to be «fair to the person who leaves home every morning to go out to work» and walks past houses where — in his phrase to Tory conference — workshy paupers are «sleeping off a life on benefits».

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice we need to make them think again.»

But there is another conception of fairness — there is the fairness for the individual who goes out to work and the next - door neighbour is living a life on benefits, and it is also unfair for that individual.

«Iain Duncan Smith's plan to persuade millions of people that working is more lucrative than living on benefits could succeed, Britain's leading economic think tank said today.

«By allowing those on benefits to receive more than the average household earns it made choosing a life on benefits too easy.

Now divorced and living on benefits in a one room flat, rock bottom after a downward spiral of anger and bitterness, his one solace is the weekly visit with his daughter.

You will have many lenders to choose from and you will even find many who cater specifically to folks who are living on benefits.

Points for the proposal — It will help to flush out â $ ˜benefit scroungersâ $ ™ â $ «By making people do community service, it will teach those who have opted for a life on benefits rather than employment that they can no longer have their lifestyle funded by those that work.