{"id":75772,"date":"2025-05-29T06:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75772"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:34:32","slug":"revealed-how-much-the-highest-earners-pay-towards-britains-benefits-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/29\/revealed-how-much-the-highest-earners-pay-towards-britains-benefits-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: how much the highest earners pay towards Britain\u2019s benefits bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75773\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Contributions-to-benefits-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Contributions-to-benefits-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Contributions-to-benefits-360x225.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Contributions-to-benefits.jpeg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s ballooning welfare state bill is costing the top 10pc of earners at least \u00a36,281 a year each, Telegraph analysis shows.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/revealed-how-much-the-highest-earners-pay-towards-britain-s-benefits-bill\/ar-AA1FGw0J?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=514cac2b74d348f6846b1159efd3c7f0&amp;ei=9\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britain\u2019s ballooning welfare state bill is costing the top 10pc of earners at least \u00a36,281 a year each, Telegraph analysis shows.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Contributions-to-benefits.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75774,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75772\/revisions\/75774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}