[iowamark]

£67.50 British pounds weekly equals 164 U.S. dollars.

[Oldexpat]

It doesn’t sound like much, but if you are getting free housing and health care..it goes a long way.

[TwoSwords]

When things hit the fan their necks a going to meet a fan. It’s called a mobile gullitione.

[Ronin]

It will be interesting to see how this works out.

My gut reaction is it will be “too little, too late” and some judge will order the government to resume the payments.

[SoDak]

Same thing would happen here I’m guessing.

[mardler]

At that rate, I’ll take all the dollars you can send me!

[BigBobber]

It took me a few moments to figure out the headline. Clever turn of phrase!

[dennisw]

We should try this here. Would get a lot of them off the rolls.

[dennisw]

Scroungers.....that’s what they call the welfare rip-off people over in the UK....lol

[calex59]

Wow, what a surprise. Who could have seen that coming? I mean, if you give people money for doing nothing why would you think that many of them wouldn't work if given the chance?/SAR

The government in the UK acts so surprised that what conservatives have been saying for ever is true. If you give people money then soon you will have a non working class and more and more people will want to go on the dole. Why work when your money is going to pay someone else NOT to work?

I would be that more than half of the OWS crowd would not take a job if offered.

[kearnyirish2]

“Instead it demonstrates that there really is a hardcore who have no intention of working.”

We have GENERATIONS here in the US with the same goal in mind; their lots aren’t improving as funds dry up on their urban reservations.

[Roccus]

Another 30 per cent never turned up for community jobs and had their £67.50 weekly handouts axed.

In the 90's when Rudy started "workfare" in NYC, about 300,000 of the then 1,000,000 welfare recipients in Fun City disappeared....over night!!

[Timocrat]

"Instead it demonstrates that there really is a hardcore who have no intention of working."

Now there's a shocker.(/s)

The real crime is that the purge is not being instituted nationwide.