Wednesday 20 October 2010

Number Crunching

Families on benefits

All: 5,917,560
No kids: 2,482,830
1 child: 611,120
2 kids: 401,540
3 kids: 184,750
4 kids: 70,740
5 kids: 22,760
6 kids: 7,510
7 kids: 2,520
8+ kids: 1,050

(Daily Telegraph, Friday 8th October,p.4)

The article does not state if these numbers include families who are working but are in receipt of housing benefit.

I'm not one of those but mum of one upstairs is, though she's just had her £98 housing benefit a week cut because she earns £430 a month.

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