{"id":77259,"date":"2025-07-10T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77259"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:35:40","slug":"benefits-claimants-take-home-more-than-minimum-wage-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/10\/benefits-claimants-take-home-more-than-minimum-wage-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits claimants take home more than minimum wage workers"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1IjMQL.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=955&amp;y=200&amp;s=100&amp;d=100\" alt=\"The think tank found that sickness benefits claims are tipping above \u00a33,000 a day, and that inactive claimants can still end up receiving thousands. (Photo by Carl Court\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brits claiming sickness benefits can be paid up to \u00a325,000, which is more than the take home pay of a minimum wage worker.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/benefits-claimants-take-home-more-than-minimum-wage-workers\/ar-AA1IjQJH?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5b9393d46bad44369d8a12dac27c6555&amp;ei=54\">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>Brits claiming sickness benefits can be paid up to \u00a325,000, which is more than the take home pay of a minimum wage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77259","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\/2023\/06\/universal-credit.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77259","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=77259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77260,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77259\/revisions\/77260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}