The reason that they are in this house is because the previous home burnt down..................they have not been given it..............it is like a rented home.............except the rent is paid through the government in the form of housing benefit..................usually families such as these live on council estates (some of which can be extremely rough, although some are nice).......................
It is the way things are over here.............if you are unemployed you can put your hand out................you arent going to get rich but you will have the basics...............it is largely due to the size of this family that they have been allocated this property...........I think probably the council will long term be looking to put them back into council housing..........which is a lot cheaper.
It can get your 'goat' when you are a tax payer knowing that we are supporting some lazy people...............but is probably basically true in what it says in that article that the family are better off claiming benefits than working..............is it their fault the system is in place to facilitate this..............I dont know.................there are plenty over here 'working' the system.
At the end of the day I dont like to set myself up as judge and jury over people............I do know whilst they are claiming benefit, bar winning the lottery, they are not going to become wealthy..........but the may well be happy.
An English Tax Payer