{"id":23933,"date":"2014-02-04T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23933"},"modified":"2014-02-04T08:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:08:53","slug":"who-benefits-from-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/04\/who-benefits-from-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Who benefits from benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don't like the term 'benefits'. It's patronising; the term social security is correct, in my opinion. So I use the term 'benefits' reluctantly, but as it works in the above title I'll use it for now.<\/p>\n<p>And since the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/bns\/bn13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Fiscal Studies have provided an answer<\/a> I'll use their data:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-04-at-08.04.30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-23934\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-04 at 08.04.30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-04-at-08.04.30.png\" width=\"362\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-04-at-08.04.30.png 452w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-04-at-08.04.30-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-04-at-08.04.30-283x225.png 283w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-04-at-08.04.30-377x300.png 377w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-04-at-08.04.30-166x132.png 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is who benefits from benefits, lest we forget.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So where are the scroungers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like the term &#8216;benefits&#8217;. It&#8217;s patronising; the term social security is correct, in my opinion. So I use the term &#8216;benefits&#8217; reluctantly, but<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/04\/who-benefits-from-benefits\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}