Benefit Busters | Single Mothers | Channel 4

In 2009, Britain will pay out more in benefits than it raises in income tax. Welfare and pension payments cost more than education, health or defence.
Now, as the government attempts to revolutionise the welfare system - controversially rewarding private companies according to their ability to coax people off benefits and into jobs - this documentary series follows the people on both sides of this new welfare state.

| Thursday, 9pm |

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/benefit-busters

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Education

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• Single
• mothers
• benefits
• slack
• lazy
• scroungers
• job
• center
• Channel 4
• Channel4

[asturel13]

@thegrandchaosmaster1 Nobody chooses to be on the dole, sounds like you have been listening to too much propoganda mate, life on benefits its fucking unbareably hard and difficult if you are a single person with no kids. It bothers me to no enf that people keep saying that the dole is an easy life when in fact its absolutely fucking awful. Just goes to show how most people havent got a clue wtf they are talking about.

[partytrick123]

funnily enough ,i search mcdonalds website daily and apply to my area job vacancies ,and in the 2 years ive been job searching and applying for every job/hours there, i have never been offered work ,even though food is my business ,hygine certed and every training going ,good referancies ..you can only apply through mcdonalds jobsite as you get a rather long test that you need for every job application. that woman who said go bang on mcdonalds door is full of crap.

[nkiddswiftkidd]

@deniro999 - Their is very little 'honest' work, and you can't claim taxi drivers aren't ripping us off with high fees as a result of over saturated cab drivers.

[nkiddswiftkidd]

I'm genuinely confused who this documentary supports or is deeming a benefit cheat ? Welfare to work programs or people claiming benefits ?

[nkiddswiftkidd]

@fridgehorse - Indeed. Job center plus black mails it's "customers" onto these welfare to work programs wonder what job center got out of it apart from not having to deal with it's job seekers. What about the countless millions of A4E clients who have been a victim to this scam ? Can we claim / sue for ££££'s

[fridgehorse]

Create a middleman company inbetween the job centre & the unemployed, employ some woman to stand there & say the obvious & then get money for old rope. A never ending supply of unemployed each one credit in the bank chargeable to the tax payer at millions of pounds a year. A4e

[blackbook668]

@Archiveofobscurity Yes. And this is exactly why I want to get off benefits and get a job. Day in day out, the doldrums. Employers who don't want to see you face to face but want an email and a CV over the internet, no contact with friends. Being this way is not a choice and if someone said, do this I would do it. Absolutely. Get friends, get some semblance of a life instead of a shell of one.

[deniro999]

I blame spineless politicans who feel its too politically incorrect or career damaging to limit the amount single parents get ....to limit the amount isnt cruel ....its better for everyone as its more money for the sick elderly and disabled and hospitals and new medical advancements..its cruel for kids to be brought up with no work ethic poor education and eating rubbish food...lower freebees gives more money to the economy and creates more better paid jobs to get single parents a paying job

[deniro999]

theres always work...a taxi license costs £75. if u havent got work get a license then either buy a taxi or go work for a taxi firm and youre guaranteed work..short term long term part time or full time....in the mean time u can go for other licenses too

[MrMauiFever]

I fiddle dole every chance i get!

[ashleelmb]

I got kicked out of the family home at 17. I originally wanted to do further education so I could get myself a career but I had to leave that idea behind. I had to just get any job to pay the bills. The only jobs I could get were low paid jobs that the employer could easily get someone else to do if they decided you werent what they wanted. After being a stooge working for little money to make a rich man richer or getting sacked from numerous jobs, Ive decided to study whilst being on benefits.

[09SRILANKA]

Spoke to single mum of 1 recently getting ESA, DLA,child tax credits & child allowance amounting to £980 every 4 weeks along with free house, council tax, prescriptions,dental, school lunches etc... Remember this is for 1 child. My wife runs our house on £ earned on £750 a month & we have 4 kids & no child or working tax credits. We would be better off not working.