• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are millions out there and you know it.

    I don’t know it. Can you show any kind of proof?

    For the record, it seems like ~10 million people aren’t working who are of working age in the UK. If it’s millions, it would mean that at least 1 in 5 people not working abuses the system. Do you really think it’s that high?

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      1 year ago

      It depends how many people claiming sick you think are actually unable to work. It benefits both the claimants and government to fudge the statistics to make it seem like the long term unemployed are receiving sickness benefits.

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        1 year ago

        You claimed that it’s millions. Can you show any evidence? I mean, you even claimed the other commenter knows you are right with that.

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          1 year ago

          Here you go. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52660591

          Like I said before it really depends how many of the people claiming to be sick actually are unable to work. If you truly believe all of them it doesn’t look like many,but from experience I know there are plenty of people claiming sick who are able to work.