You have to know how to work the system to get all the benefits available, the long term unemployed certainly know which forms to fill in and exactly what they can get to milk the system.
Those that are suddenly made unemployed having worked since leaving school have no real idea what they are entitled to and really struggle.
I know of a woman who has an epileptic adult son. The family claim for his disability and two carers although he goes round the area completely on his own with his free bus pass. She does not work, her partner does not work, the son does not work but they never seem short of money because of all the varying benefits going into the house.
