From: "Andy Pandy" 
Newsgroups: uk.misc uk.legal uk.finance
Subject: Re: Benefits & Immigrants
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:55:57 -0000
Message-Id: <1106502836.28089.0@eunomia.uk.clara.net>


"WLTK"  wrote in message
news:1gqu869.86fsjb1tqnnxqN%WLTK@once.invalid...
> I would like to know how many people in UK are on benefits, unemployment
> or sickness, long and short term

Depends whether you include tax credits.

> Also, how many ££'s is it really £100bn pa ?

No, it's about £120 billion, or £130 billion if you include tax credits. Works
out to over a quarter of the tax take, and over double the amount spent on the
NHS.

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Andy