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“If you’re ill, you’re ill” - Your thoughts on the current benefits system
National World - LocalTV
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29/01/2025
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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Of course it has been abused. It's been abused now, not just recently, it's been abused for a long, long time.
00:07
I think my nan, living proof, means she never got anything off disability or anything, just got on with it.
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But like now, you've only got a coffin, you're on a disability and everything else.
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It is to a certain extent. They should be more strict with them. They should be more strict.
00:25
I think in some instances, like any benefit, there's a degree of abuse in it. It depends how much there is.
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And the danger, I suppose, is that real, genuine claimants could be tarred with the brush of people who aren't.
00:41
Again, they need to have a little look to see if they're actually genuine.
00:45
People are on benefits and they deserve it, you know, because they can't walk.
00:49
See people that's ill, you know, and they're trying to force them back.
00:53
You know, they're taking the benefit off them so they can go back to work.
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If a person's ill, a person's ill.
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