Sentence examples for get off benefits from inspiring English sources

Oi, proles: get off Benefits Street!

We're committed to helping people who are capable of work get off benefits, while giving unconditional support to those who need it".

He said: "This government has made important reforms to the welfare state, and this trial shows how taking an innovative approach can help even more people get off benefits".

I'm totally struggling, on benefits, trying to make the best of a terrible situation, and working so unbelievably hard … "I can't get a raise big enough to get off benefits.

Here's the paradox of the minimum wage: even as the higher minimum wage attempts to lift low-wage workers out of poverty and help them get off benefits, it might actually leave them worse off than before.

Indeed, the breaking of trade union power may well have also gone too far: part of the problem with today's labour market is that low-paid work is so insecure, with zero-hours contracts and so on, that it makes it harder for people to get off benefits.

That is a huge incentive to get off benefit and into work, which in turn will boost the whole economy.

Because one of the things that we have tried very hard to ensure, through our work in this coalition government, is that there are much better incentives for people to get off benefit and into work.

"I agree with the idea of people getting off benefits and into work; I understand and that's right, but this pressure is making it harder.

He thought there were too many claimants who would, he repeatedly declared in language steeped in the pious undertone of moral motivation, benefit from getting off benefits and into work.

"Yes, I got off benefits and wrote the first four Harry Potter books as a single mother, but nothing makes me prouder than what Jessica told me recently about the first five years of her life: 'I never knew we were poor.