Totts on Nostr: #bbclaurak asks #Badenoch, "How many people do you think are cheating the [welfare] ...

#bbclaurak asks #Badenoch, "How many people do you think are cheating the [welfare] system?"

KB "I don't have exact figures, but what we have seen is an explosion of people who are claming for low-level conditions that can go to work with. ADHD, anxiety, these are conditions that work would actually help them with [Badenoch has no medical qualifications]

As of mid-2026, government figures show that more than 100,000 people in the UK receive Personal Independence Payments (PIP) with ADHD listed as their main disabling condition

Around 47,000 claimants have anxiety listed as their primary condition for Personal Independence Payment (PIP). However, when combined with related conditions like depression, well over 360,000 PIP recipients cite mixed anxiety and depression as their main disability.

There are 4.2 million ppl claming PIP in the UK

This means that only 8% of PIP claimants are citing the above, and BEING AWARDED FOR, #PIP

(If ever you have had to claim PIP, you will know how difficult it is to get any money. When I was in a wheelchair I had to prove I could not walk due to #Dystonia no, really

Notwithstanding, PIP is an out of work benefit

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Lk then goes back and says, "There are 10 million ppl in work claming benefit. If you are saying people are cheating the system, many would like to know how many you are talking about."

"I don't have the figures," replies KB

In the UK, official estimates measure benefit fraud as a percentage of overall welfare spending rather than a headcount of individuals. The Department for Work and Pensions estimates that benefit fraud accounts for roughly 2.2% of total benefit expenditure. This means that there are no figures available!

And that means she is making things up ONLY to victimise welfare claimants who are already slandered in the right wing press and economically too impoverished to fight back.