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Article: SHAMELESS! Job shy: Jean Thompson, right, with son Steven and granddaughter Jessica, who says: 'It's my right to claim benefits'.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Byline: Sadie Nicholas, Diana Appleyard
KNOWN as the 'Shameless' family among horrified neighbours, theMcFaddens 'boast' three generations of adults who are not working.
All ten members of the clan share a council house and live off benefitsamounting to around [pounds sterling]32,000 a year. And very happy they are, too.
Matriarch is grandmother Sue McFadden, 54.
'Our neighbours are so snobbythey 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? 'The onlyproblem is,' she says without a hint of irony, 'that we're living in athree-bedroom council ...