"Poverty driving benefit fraud"

[Caligula]

No shit sherlock.

Imagine my surprise. I guess there will be huffing and puffing in the pages of the Daily Mail today because the Rowntree Foundation have just carried out research which reveals \link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5084648.stm\ the bleedin' obvious}

And before everyone starts going on about the people they know who earn £60K with 2 mercedes and claim benefit, this report is about the majority, not the anomalies. But for some reason, everyone always gets bogged down with the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to this issue, don't they?

Oh but we all know that being a benefits cheat means you can afford foreign holidays and false nails and tanning sessions (and that's just the men).

What piece of blindingly obvious research could they conduct next, do you think? Frowning makes you look frowny?

remember that one a few years back about Big Issue sellers making £200 a day or something?

My Big Issue seller clients were pissing themselves over that one, I can tell you.

But I thought they all lived in houses worth 400K with tennis courts. Do you mean they don't?

I doubt the Daily Mail would cover this, would it? Not really their area, financial inequity, is it?

actually, on 60k you'd stil get child benefit and a teeny bit of family tax credit.

Enough to buy 2 mercs at least.

Why does anyone need to be told this?