Benefits in Britain. fact and fiction

[I1L2T3]

More than 1.4 million households under 25, that have never worked, that sounds like quite a lot.

 

Where does it say that?

[El Cid]

Where does it say that?

 

Here ....

 

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_277448.pdf

 

3.68 million (17.9 per cent) workless households. I think I should have said not working, not never worked.

[MrSmith]

Yes you have. As you quoted yourself it's 1% of workless households, not 1% of ALL households.

 

Maybe you wanted it to be 1% of all households to fit in with your belief system. The reality is it's 0.06% of all households.

 

No I looked at that pyramid, which says,

Pattern of work in working age households.

1% Households with two generations both workless.

17% have been workless for one generation.

82% are working households.

 

So its about 150,000 households with two generation not in work, but only 15,000 of those households have never worked.

[gnvqsos]

If you lose your job and can't find another how will you survive?

 

Happ Hazzard does not have a job he can lose.He is the Sheffield correspondent for the daily Mail and a part-time agony aunt for the Sun.He is the eyes and ears of the right.

[I1L2T3]

No I looked at that pyramid, which says,

Pattern of work in working age households.

1% Households with two generations both workless.

17% have been workless for one generation.

82% are working households.

 

So its about 150,000 households with two generation not in work, but only 15,000 of those households have never worked.

 

So 91% of the 1% of working age (not all) households that have two generations not in work have a history of participating in the workforce.

 

Interesting innit

[El Cid]

 

1% Households with two generations both workless.

 

With roughly 8% of the workforce unemployed, it not that hard to believe that 1% may have children that have left education in the past few months/years, and not yet found work.

[Mister M]

Happ Hazzard does not have a job he can lose.He is the Sheffield correspondent for the daily Mail and a part-time agony aunt for the Sun.He is the eyes and ears of the right.

 

And now that Kelvin MacKenzie has been sacked by the Telegraph after writing just one piece, Happ Hazzard will have one less source to get his 'unbiased' inspiration from

[Happ Hazzard]

I was referring to more and more people in work being on benefits.

[MrSmith]

So 91% of the 1% of working age (not all) households that have two generations not in work have a history of participating in the workforce.

 

Interesting innit

 

Number of households where no one has EVER had a job falls by 20,000 but that's still 340,000 homes which have always been supported by taxpayers.

 

 

340,000 households in which no adult has ever worked,

It’s not something that should be ignored.

 

1.75 million children living in workless households.

 

What they don't say is how big the households are that work or how big the households are that don't work, they would be interesting numbers to see.

[I1L2T3]

Here ....

 

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_277448.pdf

 

3.68 million (17.9 per cent) workless households. I think I should have said not working, not never worked.

 

It states there are 340,000 households where one adult has never worked. That includes one person households. The workless households include those who own their house outright.