Get On Your Bike.

David Cameron says it's time for people to stop complaining about benefit cuts and 'go out and get work' instead.

Yesterday saw a major blow to the Government's plans for benefit reform. The House of Lords added an amendment to exclude child benefits from the benefits cap, in order to protect vulnerable children in larger families.

Controversy
However, the government isn't having a bar of it. They plan to push the reforms through, and during the debate David Cameron made his disdain for benefit scroungers perfectly obvious.

The controversial plan is to cap the maximum benefits that any household can receive at £26,000 - which is what the average family brings home between them. This would more than likely mean many more compromises for people on benefits. Many will have to leave expensive areas and move into cheaper properties. Many more will see their standard of living drop.

The House of Lords amendment was made out of concern for very large families. There are at least 190 families with 10 or more children who are dependent on benefits, who would clearly struggle with a cap.

However, the government is insistent that people should not be able to breed their way around the new rules, and that no-one should get more than the cap - so that working is always a better option. It plans to take the Bill back to the House of Commons, where it could overturn the amendment.

Cameron's colours
During the debate, Cameron's comments revealed just how passionately he believed a culture of benefit entitlement has to go. In what seems like a bit of a step away from his 'hug a hoodie' reputation, he insisted that if people couldn't live with the cap, then maybe they ought to get themselves a job instead.

He said: "In many cases the answer will be for someone in that family to go out and work, and that will be the right answer for that family.We have too many children growing up in our country in households where nobody works, where a life on welfare has become an acceptable alternative".

"The way children suffer today, there are far too many children in households where no one is working," he said. "And one of the reasons why in some households no one is working is because welfare has become so available."

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