We prevent it by stopping giving money out to people with no expectation of them actually having to do anything for it.
You cannot blame the people who sit on their ar5es and take the money if nobody ever makes them get a job.
1) Child benefit should be on a slding scale. So much for first child, less for second child etc. Once you get above say 4 children you only get benefts for children in special situations, not by right.
2) You can only get the "dole" for a certain length of time. You are sent for 3 interviews, and if you dont take any of the jobs your dole stops after 6 months.
There is no incentive for someone on the dole to take a job if they dont want to. Turn up late for the interview, be scruffy, be rude, and you wont get a job.
Fine if you want to be like that, but you only get the dole for 6 months then it stops.
Benefits were meant to be for people who fell through the trap door.
But now we have whole families who think it is their right to live their whole life supported by the rest of us.