{"id":82835,"date":"2025-12-27T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82835"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:36:10","slug":"forget-working-you-could-be-better-off-on-benefits-under-labour-how-a-couple-with-three-children-earning-just-10000-a-year-could-game-the-system-to-pocket-the-equivalent-of-a-140000-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/27\/forget-working-you-could-be-better-off-on-benefits-under-labour-how-a-couple-with-three-children-earning-just-10000-a-year-could-game-the-system-to-pocket-the-equivalent-of-a-140000-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget working, you could be better off on benefits under Labour! How a couple with three children earning just \u00a310,000 a year could &#8216;game&#8217; the system to pocket the equivalent of a \u00a3140,000 salary"},"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:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/html_modules\/2025\/12_DEC\/251219_Budget_Compunds_Slowdown\/251219_benefits_vs_not_on_benefits_v2-large.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Benefit-claiming parents who work as little as a day a week are set for bumper pay packets worth the equivalent of \u00a3140,000 next year \u2013 and it&#8217;s all thanks to Labour&#8217;s &#8216;Benefit Street\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-4e6a0eb0-dcff-11f0-8201-572b3856a09d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/budget\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Budget<\/a><\/span>&#8216;.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15388599\/better-benefits-labour-analysis-graphic.html\">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>Benefit-claiming parents who work as little as a day a week are set for bumper pay packets worth the equivalent of \u00a3140,000&#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-82835","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\/82835","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=82835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82836,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82835\/revisions\/82836"}],"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=82835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}