We've just had a conversation with an unemployed eighteen year old couple that has made us feel like mugs. They have never worked a day in their lives, went straight from school to the dole. They get everything paid for i.e rent, council tax, plus weekly money for food etc. They are getting help towards their other bills such as electricity and have just received a grant that they don't have to repay for furniture in their new accomodation. My husband and myself work and pay our taxes, we have five children the eldest is working but still living at home, one at college, 2 at school and a baby. We own our home. If this couple were to go and get a job they would be five hundred pounds a month worse off,they said to us why should they work and it's true. I tried to say for your own self respect, so that you can do the things in life that you want to and so that the likes of us are not paying to keep you but really when you look at it what incentive do they have?They get up late, spend the day on xbox and tv, then pub in the evening, it seems this is enough for them, a habit easily slipped into. They will of course in time advance themselves the only way they can by having children so that they will be provided with a bigger house and more money. It makes me sick though that this is possible. It's about time the government put a stop to all of this. Everybody occassionally needs a little help along the way but this current situation if ridiculous, I'm not talking about the disabled benefits of course but the government keep threating this great shake up in the system, it seems that it's actually only really affecting the people that actually need the help. People that are losing benefits they need such as the disabled, the sick and elderly and not these abled bodied people that should be earning their own livings.