The 190 families with ten children who cost you more than £11million in benefits A YEAR

By DANIEL MARTIN

Complaining: Pete and Sam Smith received £95,000 in benefits, live in a four-bedroom house rent free and even have breakfast delivered, but they are still not happy with what they have

Scores of workless families with ten or more children are living on state benefits worth more than £60,000 a year. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that there are 190 families with at least ten under-18s where one or both of the parents gets an out-of-work benefit.
These families are eligible for £61,183 a year in state support – much more than they could hope to earn if they entered the job market.
A family in work would have to earn £93,000 to be left with this amount of money after tax. The statistics illustrate the extent to which enormous handouts condemn such families to a life on benefits, because it would not be worth their while to take on work.

Proposals: Iain Duncan Smith wants to impose a benefits cap of £26,000, which is the same figure as the income of an average family

One minister has suggested that parents should think twice about having so many children if they cannot support them without the help of benefits.
Nearly 100,000 people on benefits have four or more children, with more than 900 claimants having at least eight.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith wants to impose a benefits cap of £26,000 – the income of an average family – on workless families.
Sources say the cap is essential to stop workshy families using extra children as revenue-raisers, getting more child benefit and perhaps a larger house.
But the plan is hitting trouble in the House of Lords, with some Lib Dems arguing that the cap should be set higher.

The Tories are determined the original cap should go through to help bring the costs of the welfare state under control. A crucial vote will be held next week.
Last night Mr Duncan Smith said: ‘Labour left our welfare system in a sorry state, with too many people better off out of work and on benefits than if they entered the working world.

source: dailymail