A few people do not want to work, and have no intention of ever working.
Do these people currently get incapacity benefit, income support, employment and support allowance, etc, coupled with housing benefit and council tax benefit?
Some of those benefits require people to go to an office and demonstrate willingness to work. So, these people who have no intention of getting a job sap the time and energy of advisors who could be helping people who do want to work.
> What's worse is that assuming the people who are unemployed are given the choice on how that money is spent, they may in fact not spend the money sensibly (i.e. on their housing) and end up homeless instead.
Currently, people can become "intentionally homeless". Didn't pay your rent and got evicted? Tough, you don't get social housing. If you're lucky (or you have unlucky children) you may get some emergency accommodation.
It's very tough to get council / housing association housing in the UK. Some places have a waiting list of 26 years. (twenty six years, so you know this isn't a typo.) And that's of the people who are eligible to go on the list - including everyone who thinks they're eligible makes the wait even worse.
Do these people currently get incapacity benefit, income support, employment and support allowance, etc, coupled with housing benefit and council tax benefit?
Some of those benefits require people to go to an office and demonstrate willingness to work. So, these people who have no intention of getting a job sap the time and energy of advisors who could be helping people who do want to work.
> What's worse is that assuming the people who are unemployed are given the choice on how that money is spent, they may in fact not spend the money sensibly (i.e. on their housing) and end up homeless instead.
Currently, people can become "intentionally homeless". Didn't pay your rent and got evicted? Tough, you don't get social housing. If you're lucky (or you have unlucky children) you may get some emergency accommodation.
It's very tough to get council / housing association housing in the UK. Some places have a waiting list of 26 years. (twenty six years, so you know this isn't a typo.) And that's of the people who are eligible to go on the list - including everyone who thinks they're eligible makes the wait even worse.