(13 Oct 2022, 3:41 pm)streetdeckfan wrote And that's what you can get on benefits these days if you know how to play the game, so why would you bother to work? There's absolutely no incentive to actually go to work. I know a couple who have 3 kids, on paper they live separately to maximise the benefits, and they get about £3k a month between them.
Based on today's Universal Credit rates, minus Housing Support, they'd be entitled to just shy of £1,153 per month between them - even if they were playing the system.
Not sure where the other £1,847 will be coming from, unless they're taking their game to the next level and putting on a show at PIP assessments, which would still leave them short even if they were placed on the highest levels of support.