With the latest budget now done and dusted there's a certain cohort of workers who got very little from it. Yesterday I overheard some people having a conversation and one of the people was a bus driver with a national transport co. He said if he only worked 20 hours a week, his partner could stay doing her job in a supermarket for the same no of hours and he would then be able to get a medical card, free books certain cash payments and other benefits . It was obvious from the chat that he was not the woman's husband and some children were hers, some his. I've no problem at all with those who cannot work for good reason, but when people choose to take advantage of benefits over working then surely that's wrong? Is it as widespread as I'm led to believe, or is it all bravado talk?