Meet the town with the most people claiming benefits for anxiety
A once proud town in the Welsh valleys has been damned by a new statistic - it has the highest rate of people in the UK claiming sickness benefits for anxiety...
Paul Thomas, 66, manager of the Helping Hands charity chop in the town said the community was 'stagnant'. 'A lot of people here have a lot of knowledge about the benefits system,' he added.
'You are not going to go out to work for a basic wage when you can get just as much money for not working.
The necessary knowledge is that of what to observe as Edgar Allan Poe once wrote. In this case it seems to be the benefits system, and who can blame those who take the trouble to observe how it works?
3 comments:
As Charlie Munger said, "Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome".
Who would have thought that mining coal underground with heavy machinery and dust would make you less anxious than watching daytime TV in Wetherspoons?
I'm so old I can remember days when Labour MPs would take to the airwaves to deny that anyone, ever, chose to live off benefits rather than work. They were always in the fiction game, Labour.
Sam - Charlie was right, the incentive is there and is bound to have an effect, although for me, watching daytime TV in Wetherspoons would be an incentive to get a job.
dearieme - I remember that too. There were people who became quite sneery if anyone dared to suggest the possibility.
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