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Channel 5 benefits.

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rubylady Wed 26-Aug-15 00:51:20

Four programmes tonight back to back about benefit claimants. How degrading are they making claimants feel? Some of us are genuine claimants and this channel has had weeks now of making people look and probably feel like scum. I've had a belly full of their attitude that benefit claimants are the biggest drain on society. This is simply not true.

How about how much other public money is spent on other people or how much is avoided paying in in the first place, like tax avoidance and the good old Government do little to get it back?

durhamjen Wed 26-Aug-15 00:59:05

I have watched a few, ruby, but not tonight. They are not all about benefit cheats; some are about how the system treats claimants badly.
I agree they seem to be overdoing it, though.