@amandacsb2 and in the UK the number of people unemployed and on welfare /benefits is very low and usually its for brief periods ,the number of long term ,able bodied people not working full time is probably around 100 thousand ,a tiny proportion of the UK population Benefit spending is tiny compared to the money the govt has "lost" or given to its buddies for none existent products.And the majority of it is a covert way of helping big bussiness by govt topping up wages that are too low