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By Charlie Sykes

Story Created: May 15, 2009

Story Updated: May 18, 2009

This is your brain on welfare.

 

Meet the families where no one's worked for THREE generations - and they don't care

By SADIE NICHOLAS and DIANA APPLEYARD -

Known as the "Shameless" family among horrified neighbours, the McFaddens "boast" three generations of adults who are not working.

 All ten members of the clan share a council house and live off benefits amounting to around £32,000 a year. And very happy they are, too.

Matriarch is grandmother Sue McFadden, 54. "Our neighbours are so snobby - they call us the "Shameless" family and say that we ought to go out to work. But how can we work when we have all these children to look after?

 

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