"He has a false manner, but he's done a reasonable job," said Martin Butcher, a housing benefits officer, said of the prime minister.
"He's too slick, giving the royal wave when he comes in," said Malcolm Watts, a benefits officer in the local council here, a Labor-controlled district in the southeast.
Love Productions said this was because the show was about people on benefits, and one of the unnamed pair was a benefits officer.
A national shortage of affordable housing has allowed people like him to line their pockets with housing benefit payments, and take up benefits officers' valuable time.
But, difficult landlords aside, what we really need is a better way to explain, in simple terms, the information we benefits officers require in order to calculate your benefits.
Ryan, who was the GOP's vice-presidential candidate alongside Mitt Romney in 2012, wants trained state benefits officers to work with families "to try to give them a path up".
They are the plans business owners and university benefits officers choose for themselves if their organizations can afford it, and they are the plans workers negotiate if they have a union behind them.
Katie Lane, welfare benefit policy officer at the charity, says that an element of the coalition's proposal "makes the scheme sound like punishment, even though claimants [of benefits] have not been found guilty of anything other than being unable to find work".
With housing benefit, rental officers could plan around set payment dates for each tenant.
