People on the street: The benefits system

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We went out into the streets of Manchester to ask people about benefits to see if they believe that the current system is working, and whether they believe most people can be trusted to be truthful.

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00:00Hi I'm Theo and this is People on the Street. Today I'm out in Manchester asking people about

00:03benefits and the reason for that is there always seems to be quite a bit of controversy when it

00:07comes to election time about disability benefits and people potentially taking advantage of it.

00:12We want to know if people on the street actually think that there is a huge proportion of people

00:15taking advantage of the system or whether they generally trust people to tell the truth about

00:20the stuff that they're facing. The fact that we're broke means we can't really do a case-by-case

00:24thing because we haven't got the services for it. All of that controversy in certain places is just

00:30spin to make people angry. Set people against each other so they know what the real enemy is.

00:36I'm not concerned. I think most people aren't taking advantage of it. You always will find

00:41people you know that want to get by and just be a bit of a scrounger if you will but

00:48as far as I'm aware any sort of research or studies that I've looked into it's such a small

00:53percentage that it doesn't actually affect the way that the system works. It's something that's negligible.

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