What a waste of time

When I first started working for the social security department there was a system in place that restricted people's benefits to no more than they had when working. It was actually just being done away with.

I don't really know how it worked but I always felt there was nothing wrong with it if (big if) it could be shown that the person/family had been managing on that wage.

Some people can manage on less. We do here, for example.

But managing on that wage should have to take everything into account, not just the wage. Maybe someone had managed because of other income or savings and that had gone now.

Anyway, it seems the present UK government were to bring something similar back; to prevent benefits being more than average working income.

The most likely reasons for benefits being more than typical income were large families and high mortgage. Over the last few years several restrictions have been instigated to reduce mortgage related benefits, so over the last few years the main reason for high benefits could be blamed on big families.

Now I read that the new rules are to be relaxed. People exempted from restricted benefit levels will mainly be those with large families.

So large families will have benefits restricetd except where they have large families.