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It's not for the state to provide for the feckless, but for local community groups, faith groups etc. to assess who is truly in need. I get 42% of the state pension and do not have a private pension, but having been brought up immediately after the war, under rationing, I know how to live on very little, how to recycle, how to mend etc. I find that younger people can make unrealistic suggestions as to how I should live, and can be profligate in the way they spend their money. There is nothing wrong with living "on the breadline", particularly when you consider how people in some other countries live. We don't know what "breadline" means by comparison with a lot of countries. That's why they are flocking here!