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The original claims by the (right wing) think tank are at their heart an unfair and disingenuous comparison.
They compare the take home pay minus tax, minus NI and minus student loan repayments to the combined pre-tax benefit payments to a couple with 3 children where at least one of them is medically unfit to work.
So no, someone on universal credit and PIP cannot earn more than someone working, only if you do roundabout maths does it add up and the people who most need to hear that won't read anything beyond the Daily Mail headline.