The Jobless Couple With 10 Children Who Rake In $32,000 A Year In Benefits Still Aren't HAPPY!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:57 pm

Tracey Crompton has never had a job, and her husband Harry has been out of work for 15 years.

Yet the couple live for free in a seven bedroom house with their ten children and receive £32,656 in benefits a year.

They even have their own vineyard in their 270ft long garden.

In fact, they receive so much in handouts that they have already bought
and wrapped £3,000 worth of Christmas presents, and plan to buy more.

The couple say they are enjoying the credit crunch because it has
forced down the price of luxury goods like TVs and computer games, but
do have two gripes.

Firstly, they want even more benefits.

Secondly, that their neighbours have nicknamed them 'Britain's Biggest Freeloaders'.

Mrs Crompton, 40, moaned: 'I'm not satisfied with the benefits we get -
I want more. I haven't been able to work because I've had to bring up
the kids and Harry's got health problems.'

Fortunately their benefits do stretch to a £250 weekly shop which
usually includes 50 packs of crisps and ten litres of fizzy drinks.

Mrs Crompton went on: 'If the kids need something I go and get it. I
rarely go without things either. If I need something, like a new pair
of shoes, then I'll get it.'

The couple and their children Michael, 20, Robin, 19, Matthew, 17,
Sarah, 16, Samantha, 14, Harry Andrew, 12, Alex, 11, Kristian, nine,
Jesse Lee, seven, and Joshua, six - live in Hull in two semis knocked
into one.

The Jobless Couple With 10 Children Who Rake In $32,000 A Year In Benefits Still Aren't HAPPY!!!!!!! FUCKYOUPAYMEMOSTUNDERRATEDOVERWORKEDUNDERPAID

As both are unemployed, their weekly £120 rent is paid by housing
benefit and they receive another £628 a week in income support,
disability and carer's allowance and other payments. Mr Crompton, 50,
says he is unable to work due to angina and irritable bowel syndrome.

Mrs Crompton said: 'We don't have money worries. We don't go
without things and I think that's because we are self-sufficient. We
grow our own food. I don't see why others should have money worries.'

Sadly, others do not always understand. 'Every time I walk down the street, people shout "scroungers",' said Mrs Crompton.

And it seems that she does not have the time for housework.

The walls of her home are dirty and peeling and the floor is covered in videos and magazines.

'I don't have much time for cleaning since I started a college course in catering,' said Mrs Crompton.

'I'm really nervous about what will happen at the end of my course.
I've never worked and so it would be scary to think I would have to get
a job. It would have to be very well-paid to pay more than the
benefits.'

• The full feature appears in Closer magazine, on sale now.