non-working households

Really2

lemonjelly wrote: »

2 things on this point.

Firstly, though they are in a minority, there are working lone parents, & there is support within the system to facilitate this.

Secondly, there are many household "claiming" to be lone parent households, which are not in reality.

In example, working in a college, it is amazing how many students live with their mom only, & the mom claims lone parent benefits. Astoundingly the sheer number of times I telephone & their just visiting father happens to answer the phone!

I also see, especially at enrolment, a lot of people come in with (people I assume to be their) partners, yet apply for the course as a lone parent.

Well half do work according to the data,

But you must admit, Single parents, Early retried (forced or not) and disabled will make up a lot of the data.
The first thing I think of on these releases are 2 parents and 2.3 children not working. that is simply not the case.

Looking past that you can see how much of the data is eaten up for reasons that would not change, recession or not.

lemonjelly

Just to add, 1 in 5 households with a person aged 16-64 in is still well worth a lot more investigation imo, to establish a breakdown of the types of households making up this 19% of the nation...

Really2

lemonjelly wrote: »

Just to add, 1 in 5 households with a person aged 16-64 in is still well worth a lot more investigation imo, to establish a breakdown of the types of households making up this 19% of the nation...

I've done my bit.

just a bit more
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:zc3MSeYGAboJ:campaigns.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rrep002.pdf+number+of+disabled+households&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi-44JvglYfI1RTmuZ3rwETyJReisZY4fcxrU_GbhNEmDiUrKy3g_qn0RtRHHBZ8U5r2UbuA5bhlnG3vL_UT4ATSVc3VEgk_vyKqtd1UI8JnuXvf3LkUTw0GBtyvjj4eTV-yiGG&sig=AHIEtbTX5Kbfo13m0eCK9MQ6kPpa7qQwgQ
Table 3.4
32% of households with some one disabled do not have a earner in the household.