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The annual bill for salaries, expenses and pension contributions for the Stormont skivers is about PS14million.

Before the tournament games begin each year, a member gala takes place, and last year the Van Skivers hosted the celebration at their own Dunhopen Farm in nearby Gluckstadt, along with several other member couples.

Deputy convener of the committee, the SNP's Clare Adamson, said: "We need to move away from the negative stereotyping of benefits recipients as 'skivers' and design a system of social security that places the dignity and human rights of people at its heart."

SICK NOTE SKIVERS EXPOSED Channel 5, 9pm Documentary featuring stories of people who have been signed off sick when in fact they were fit as fiddles, including sprinter Matthew Thomas, who was exposed as a fraud after racing in national competitions and coaching young athletes while he was on sick leave from his job as a payroll officer with Newham Council.

I wonder if the prime minister will still call carers the "unsung heroes of society " "those who have done the right thing for their family " will he still ask us to turn around for the customary "pat on the back" or, as Osborne has done, place a knife between our shoulder blades, are carers, now to be classed as scroungers & skivers.

BENEFITS Street star White Dee has been labelled a "poster girl" for skivers, a Labour MP claimed.

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "The British workforce is often unfairly portrayed as a nation of skivers and shirkers, but the reality is exactly the opposite.

Or, as the middle class skivers like to call it, "gaining a more complete education by immersing ourselves in the culture of another country".

Few are spongers, scroungers and skivers and most just want to work again.

"It is based on the misguided, misinformed and cynical assumption that those on benefits are 'shirkers' or 'skivers' and it is hugely unfair.

MPs love to use the word skiver. But it is the MPs who are the skivers.

"Skivers", "shirkers", "scroungers", the workshy hiding behind curtains: that's who's being hit, or so we're told.