Getting sickness benefit was considered valuable as it indicated acceptance or confirmation of being sick, even if the payment was at a low level and needed to be supplemented by social assistance.
More than half are claiming jobseeker's allowance, the benefit most likely to be affected by the ruling, he said, while about 40,000 EU nationals getting sickness and disability benefits could also lose out.
"When demand exceeds what a person is able to deliver, you get sickness, less high-quality thinking, irritability and frustration, people become very survival oriented and much less likely to become reflective and relational and imaginative," says Schwartz.
We have not found other studies about this – possibly partly due to that in some countries unemployed people cannot get sickness benefits.
They come off work and they're just getting sickness benefit... so you know it does impact on your whole life really you know, financially as well as emotionally and physically.
The older ones, who in several cases were also ill, perceived social assistance as economic dependency and saw that finding a job or getting sickness benefit would be the solution.
Read a book, then that will get sickness off your mind.
"When you get sick, the sickness inside your body can't get out," Tran says.
I couldn't stand comments such as, "Oh, you've got morning sickness?
