With an additional dose of "so what if they do"? If a few want to sit at home on some low amount of weekly money playing games, so what. Most people will want m

With an additional dose of "so what if they do"? If a few want to sit at home on some low amount of weekly money playing games, so what. Most people will want more out of life and in the bank. It will lead to far fewer falling out of the system entirely thanks to the expense of forms, proof and means testing for benefits (this is well shown), but will also eliminate fractional claiming rates. Means testing and claiming has been shown time and again to put some off claiming at all, perhaps through pride or the current intentional systematised stigma of benefits, even sheer exhaustion from 2 years of seeking work in late 50s to 2,000x rejections. So we end up with a two tier unemployment system: those in receipt of unemployment, and those who've fallen out of the system entirely or were never in it. I'd rather help those with long term issues as well and have no one fall through the gaps to food bank or suicide.