Entitled to a Five-bedroom House - John Stossel

Entitled to a Five-bedroom House - John Stossel: "An article in today's UK Daily Mail illustrates how over time, welfare states begin to offer monstrous entitlements:

A single mother-of-six is getting more than 80,000 pounds[$125,000] a year from the taxpayer to live in a 2 million pound mansion in an exclusive London suburb.

Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost 7,000 pounds a month in housing benefits to pay the rent on the five-bedroom villa just yards from Sir Paul McCartney's house and Lord's cricket ground.
She also receives an estimated 15,000 pounds a year in other payouts, such as child benefit, to help look after her children, aged from five months to 14.

The four-storey house in Maida Vale has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a double living room... two large flat-screen televisions ...

Welfare fraud? No -- the government stands by the payments:

Miss Marjam said: 'I moved here at the beginning of the month as I'm entitled to a five-bedroom house.

'I was in a three-bedroom council house but I needed a bigger place once my new baby came along. So the council agreed to pay the 1,600 pounds a week to a private landlord as they didn't have any houses big enough..."

The best part is her claim that "I'm entitled to a five-bedroom house" and that the government agrees with that!