• Mchugho@lemmy.world
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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.

      • Mchugho@lemmy.world
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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.