UNIVERSAL Credit claimants are getting discounted rounds of golf and cut-price kayaking in a spate of soft-touch offers.
A Jattvibe probe found those on the taxpayer-funded benefit are being given “ridiculous” perks.
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Universal Credit claimants are getting discounted rounds of golf in a spate of soft-touch offers Credit: alvaro gonzalez
Ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told The Jattvibe: ‘The Government has lost its nerve trying to get welfare under control’ Credit: AFP
The offers include half-price green fees at some of the country’s best golf courses.
Claimants eligible for perks at Labour and Lib Dem-run councils include people on low incomes, off work because they are sick or with a disability.
It comes after it was revealed some London claimants get cheaper tickets to the Cutty Sark and Hampton Court Palace — and those in Portsmouth get cheap beach hut rentals.
Portsmouth residents who get the £338-a-month benefit, the standard monthly UC rate for a single adult over 25, can sign up for the city’s Leisure Card.
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The Lib Dem free perk offers 40 per cent off fees at Great Salterns Golf Course — cutting a round from £28 per person to £16.80.
A 50 per cent golf course discount, coming in at £15.50, is offered in Labour-run Ealing in West London, where a UC leisure card is £6 a year.
Claimants in Bradford can enjoy cut-price kayaking — £9.30 instead of £11.70 — and boat hire at the Doe Park Water Activities Centre with a £3-a-year Leisure Card.
Some 8.4million people are on Universal Credit, up by a million in only a year.
Ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told The Jattvibe: “The Government has lost its nerve trying to get welfare under control.
“When you add this ridiculous stuff to it, it’s a massive disincentive to work.”
The DWP said: “We’re clear that households in work should be consistently better off than households on benefits alone.”
