Jobless couple with six children handed four-bedroom home to go with £27,000-a-year benefits after claiming their council flat wasn't big enough | Mail Online

Jobless couple with six children handed four-bedroom home to go with £27,000-a-year benefits after claiming their council flat wasn't big enough | 

Why are jobless couples, with large families, being continually pilloried in National newspapers. What do they want to be done? Do they want the Chinese system of two kids, only.  Do they want the 'extra' kids taken away from  the parents which, in fact, would cost more money.  They bang on but never ever come up with their solution.
How could this family be expected to live in a one bedroom flat???  This is the argument for the so called, bedroom tax. Councils want to have families in the bigger homes and the single people in smaller ones.
As far as income is concerned. The minimum wage is about £6.30 an hour. So working 40 hours would bring in a gross wage of £250 per week.  Less deductions, this would leave about £180 from which they would have to pay rent,local poll tax and feed and cloth the family, then there is the fuel bill. Of course, They would get family allowance on top of any wages,which might bring them up again to the gross income figure. That is still half as much as they receive on benefits. They receive benefits of about £480 per week including child allowances , pay no rent,10% of local tax and stay at home.  Be honest.........of course you would taken the money. I think that they could get more money! Gavin is a jobseeker and must dance the crazy tune of continually going for interviews at job centres.  If he applied to be considered a carer, for his wife, all of this hounding would stop. She could claim invalidity and eventually disability allowance, which wold give them more income, as the children are growing up.
The problem is low wages.