The media gives this idea that being on benefits is a very easy way to live and they also give a bad idea about the people who claim benefits .
On a recent documentary on BBC three they followed the lives of teenage girls receiving benefits they showed them spending money on drugs, alcohol and spending their time at parties and displaying a bad attitude and lack of ambition.
On the local news yesterday a statement was made about benefits being "too " generous and that they are considering capping benefits and money will be paid based on the contributions that people have made.
There are so many stigmas/stereotypes attached to people claiming benefits such as "lazy", "Scrounger" or "work shy", it makes me sick to the stomach and it is giving the genuine people out there a bad name.
If you are under 25 and claiming Job seekers allowance you receive £112 a fortnight (not per week!)
so that works out at £8 a day. you don't receive money for gas or electric and when you need new clothes or shoes when they have holes in them or are ripped, the job centre doesn't give out money it's hard enough getting a crisis loan when you have little or nothing in your cupboard but then when you hear young people at the job centre who said they spent their crisis loan on a holiday or when they are walking round with fake tan and talking about getting their nails done. you can't help but think "how do they get away with it?"
There are genuine people out there struggling to get by on benefits. who are struggling to afford childcare. education and much more and everyday thinking should I spend my last tenner or food or heating? and you have people saying "the social can help fund that" or "you are entitled to that" and "saying there are loads of jobs out there, why haven't you found one yet?"
It's true what they say getting a job is the same odds of winning the lottery, while one person is hoping and praying that the answer will be a yes, so are another 100 or so applicants who have applied for the job.
