As Nicola Smith at the TUC has reported, when George Osborne claimed the following he wasn't quite telling the whole truth::
Today there are some families receiving £104,000 a year in housing benefit. The cost of that single award is equivalent to the total income tax and national insurance paid by 16 working people on median incomes. It is clear that the system of housing benefit is in dire need for reform.
It transpires he may have been referring to three families, and that’s according to the Daily Telegraph — his strongest ally in the media.
A little exaggeration happens in opposition George, but in government it is just plain irresponsible. When will you learn?
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Yeah but the important issue is some workless people are getting over 100K in benefits, now that really is plain irresponsible!
@Jay
Nonsense
Their children – rather a lot of them – and that is an issue, I agree – are being supported
Get real. Like it or not that thye have a lot of children unless you impose the most severe restriction on human behaviour – requiring a licence to reproduce – then this incredible small and utterly irrelevant scenario will exist and need have no impact at all on policy precisely because it is wholly exceptional