A new report warns that working families are increasingly depend on state benefits to avoid eviction from their homes due to an unaffordable housing market.
A failure to build enough new homes in recent years has pushed rents and house prices up, and led to an 86 per cent increase in housing benefit claims since 2009 by those in employment, according to a National Housing Federation (NHF) report.
The study said that 10,000 more working families now need housing benefit every month to help pay their rent, with 417,830 more workers claiming them over the last three years.

I know somebody who met a Danish girl and went out there to live. They had a baby and lived on benefits and the Danish Government chucked him out because they said their little country couldn't afford to have people there who couldn't earn a living.

The system favours benefit claimants. There have been a few sensible ideas tabled recently though.

Limiting child benefit to a maximum number. That would deter the ones who produce a football team and then spend it down the pub.

I also think all on benefits should be made to do community work 3 or 4 days a week to earn it. There's plenty of work that needs doing out and about.

The elderly should earn their pensions by doing voluntary work in their communities to avoid being a ‘burden on the state’, a retired mandarin has suggested.

Lord Bichard, formerly head of the Benefits Agency, made the controversial suggestion at a House of Lords discussion on how to meet the costs of Britain’s ageing population.

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