00:00Hi I'm Theo and this is People on the Street. Today I'm out in Manchester asking people about
00:03benefits and the reason for that is there always seems to be quite a bit of controversy when it
00:07comes to election time about disability benefits and people potentially taking advantage of it.
00:12We want to know if people on the street actually think that there is a huge proportion of people
00:15taking advantage of the system or whether they generally trust people to tell the truth about
00:20the stuff that they're facing. The fact that we're broke means we can't really do a case-by-case
00:24thing because we haven't got the services for it. All of that controversy in certain places is just
00:30spin to make people angry. Set people against each other so they know what the real enemy is.
00:36I'm not concerned. I think most people aren't taking advantage of it. You always will find
00:41people you know that want to get by and just be a bit of a scrounger if you will but
00:48as far as I'm aware any sort of research or studies that I've looked into it's such a small
00:53percentage that it doesn't actually affect the way that the system works. It's something that's negligible.
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