There may be no nasty impulse to punish ‘skivers’, but the end result – the most vulnerable hit hardest – is exactly the same, says columnist Frances Ryan
If companies paid decent wages there wouldn’t need to be a reliance on state welfare and charities. Companies paying low wages benefit indirectly from the benefits paid.
Decent wages don’t cure sicknesses that require a functioning healthcare system, alas, and that’s our biggest problem at the moment, with regards to large numbers out of work.
I know people who can’t work because of an illness that the NHS can treat, but the waiting list and hoops to jump through to obtain treatment can be literally years long.
They want to get back to being healthy and working, but the national services they need to get there basically just don’t exist any longer…
You do realise that many people (significantly more since covid in fact) are on benefits because we can’t work, right? And it’s those benefits (disability, employment support) that are getting the worst cuts.
So you’re not technically wrong, but your solution also doesn’t help those of us most targeted.
If companies paid decent wages there wouldn’t need to be a reliance on state welfare and charities. Companies paying low wages benefit indirectly from the benefits paid.
Decent wages don’t cure sicknesses that require a functioning healthcare system, alas, and that’s our biggest problem at the moment, with regards to large numbers out of work.
I know people who can’t work because of an illness that the NHS can treat, but the waiting list and hoops to jump through to obtain treatment can be literally years long.
They want to get back to being healthy and working, but the national services they need to get there basically just don’t exist any longer…
You do realise that many people (significantly more since covid in fact) are on benefits because we can’t work, right? And it’s those benefits (disability, employment support) that are getting the worst cuts.
So you’re not technically wrong, but your solution also doesn’t help those of us most targeted.