“If you’re ill, you’re ill” - Your thoughts on the current benefits system - video Dailymotion

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Some social media influencers have been criticised for bragging about claiming disability benefits for conditions like ADHD. Do you think the current system is being abused and what needs to change?

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00:00Of course it has been abused. It's been abused now, not just recently, it's been abused for a long, long time.

00:07I think my nan, living proof, means she never got anything off disability or anything, just got on with it.

00:13But like now, you've only got a coffin, you're on a disability and everything else.

00:17It is to a certain extent. They should be more strict with them. They should be more strict.

00:25I think in some instances, like any benefit, there's a degree of abuse in it. It depends how much there is.

00:32And the danger, I suppose, is that real, genuine claimants could be tarred with the brush of people who aren't.

00:41Again, they need to have a little look to see if they're actually genuine.

00:45People are on benefits and they deserve it, you know, because they can't walk.

00:49See people that's ill, you know, and they're trying to force them back.

00:53You know, they're taking the benefit off them so they can go back to work.

00:57If a person's ill, a person's ill.

“If you’re ill, you’re ill” - Your thoughts on the current benefits system

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