This story is second hand, but I have no reason to doubt the truth of it. A friend of a friend was on a bus the other day - it was a pretty full bus. It stopped as there was a young girl with a young baby in a buggy. The driver said to the girl, sorry, I have room for you, but no room for the buggy. The girl picked the baby out of the buggy and got on the bus and said "no worrys, the sosh (social security) will buy me another one" .
The man thing that makes me think this is an urban myth is the social security hasn't been called that for many years now so a young girl would not refer to the DWP as the sosh.
The friend of a friend is obviously talking rubbish annie.
Probably by older mothers though Bobbi unless that is just a term local to Tyneside?
My mum still calls it the DSS and still refers to child benefit as family allowance.
I call it the social too ummmm,but that is because that is what it was when I had my first two children and applied for child benefit. Annie refers to the mother in her story as a 'girl' though so we are supposed to assume a teen mum by that.