It is annoying when you see at close hand people who appear to be living high on the hog on benefits. But you do know that mostly they're not don't you?
And of course you're angry because in this family you can actually see all the 'scrounging' that you have been told is taking away from 'hard working families' like yours.
But you do know that all the benefit 'cheats/scroungers' cost you less in tax and impact to the future of yourself and your children than the bankers and white collar fraudsters, corporations dodging tax and zero hours contracting Union dismantling, NHS privatising, public letter writing to support more of the same, businesses don't you?
Because most of us are working people living in ordinary homes we are statistically more likely to meet or hear of a neighbour/parent at the school/friend of a friend of a friend's mother's who is holidaying in Ibiza with her 12 under 15's by six dads on benefit. And so believe the stories we're told by the people protecting the interests of their friends and families who run all the big business and hold all the power.
You don't go to the dinner parties, fundraiser balls, weekenders at the country house/villa in 'somewhere hot'/yacht where people like you are discussed in disparaging terms and where you and you children's lives are shaped in terms of how much profit they will bring to those around the dinner table. So you don't think about that you just think about what you can see or rather what you've been told to see.
So go ahead - You send your son into their unsecure home (renting on benefits is fraught with worry) to see if you can find out where the dad is getting a bit of cash in hand work so you can feel powerful when you shop him to the authorities. You can then be very proud it was you who winkled out the family secret to make sure his kids are eating out of the food-bank and then you can feel the warm glow of benevolence when you give the mum some old clothes for her boy to wear and you can tut about how the baby looks cold in that thin jacket (maybe even come on MN to ask 'Aibu to think this mum should have warmer clothes for her kids') . You can feel really good then especially if they have to move to b&b and when the dads inside again because you'll have shopped and stopped someone getting more than you.
But remember someone somewhere more powerful than you is looking at you and your rented house and thinking about how to make more profit by housing people like you, they'll spin a line about hard working families need less space these days because they're out hard working or something and they'll be creating a new kind of indentured labour scheme which means your son works zero hours as a carpentry apprentice until he's paid off his education debt ( no I don't mean uni but school from 5 to 16) because you do know there are those who think you've been 'entitled and encouraged to rely on handouts' by not paying to send you child to school don't you?
Fool. But do go ahead and look around you for someone to kick down further so that you can feel good.