A SCROUNGER mum has revealed she told her teenage daughter to get pregnant to get more benefits.
WORK SHY: Mum Sinead was thrilled when her daughter Melissa said she was expecting [STUART MASON/PENDLE MEDIA]
Shameless Sinead Clarkson has never worked a day in her life and was thrilled when daughter Melissa, 19, said she was expecting.
Sinead said: “I told Melissa to work the system and have a baby so she could claim more benefits, get a house of her own and have a better life.
“I don’t want her to work for peanuts in a low-paid job.”
The single mum, 36, insisted she had no interest in finding work and is happy for her two girls to spend life on the dole.
Between them the family, from Rochdale, rake in £1,200 a month, including the rent on their three-bedroom home.
When Melissa has her baby in July she will bag an extra £400 a month, plus a two-bedroom council house.
Sinead bragged: “I’m better off on benefits. I refuse to work for a pittance and struggle.
She spends her days at home watching soaps with Melissa, who was expelled at 16 for bad behaviour. She admitted her youngest daughter Amie, 12, is already showing signs of copying their bad example.
Sinead told Closer magazine: “Amie loves babies and has said she wants one too. I’d be pleased if she got a job.
“However, I know she sees me and Melissa sitting at home doing nothing and might be tempted not to work too.
“Whatever she chooses to do, I’ll support her.”
She boasted of having plenty of time to cook, shop for baby clothes and socialise with pals who do not work either.
Sinead said: “I know people will be angry, but they shouldn’t judge. It’s the system’s fault.”
Last night Robert Oxley, campaign director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It’s a deeply depressing waste of taxpayers’ money and human potential for someone to live their life on benefits, worse still to promote the same for their children.
“A system that allows people to see having a child as a pay cheque is fundamentally flawed and needs further reform.”
WORK SHY: Mum Sinead was thrilled when her daughter Melissa said she was expecting [STUART MASON/PENDLE MEDIA] Sinead said: “I told Melissa to work the system and have a baby so she could claim more benefits, get a house of her own and have a better life.
“I don’t want her to work for peanuts in a low-paid job.”
The single mum, 36, insisted she had no interest in finding work and is happy for her two girls to spend life on the dole.
Between them the family, from Rochdale, rake in £1,200 a month, including the rent on their three-bedroom home.
When Melissa has her baby in July she will bag an extra £400 a month, plus a two-bedroom council house.
Sinead bragged: “I’m better off on benefits. I refuse to work for a pittance and struggle.
“I don’t have any qualifications so it’s easier to claim money than persuade an employer to give me a job.”“I told Melissa to work the system and have a baby so she could claim more benefits, get a house of her own and have a better life”Sinead Clarkson
She spends her days at home watching soaps with Melissa, who was expelled at 16 for bad behaviour. She admitted her youngest daughter Amie, 12, is already showing signs of copying their bad example.
Sinead told Closer magazine: “Amie loves babies and has said she wants one too. I’d be pleased if she got a job.
“However, I know she sees me and Melissa sitting at home doing nothing and might be tempted not to work too.
“Whatever she chooses to do, I’ll support her.”
She boasted of having plenty of time to cook, shop for baby clothes and socialise with pals who do not work either.
Sinead said: “I know people will be angry, but they shouldn’t judge. It’s the system’s fault.”
Last night Robert Oxley, campaign director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It’s a deeply depressing waste of taxpayers’ money and human potential for someone to live their life on benefits, worse still to promote the same for their children.
“A system that allows people to see having a child as a pay cheque is fundamentally flawed and needs further reform.”
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