{"id":101979,"date":"2026-09-13T01:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/stunning-data-shows-being-on-sickness-benefits-pays-more-than-joining-army\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:42:05","slug":"stunning-data-shows-being-on-sickness-benefits-pays-more-than-joining-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/stunning-data-shows-being-on-sickness-benefits-pays-more-than-joining-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning data shows being on sickness benefits &#8216;pays more than joining Army&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2248080\/stunning-data-shows-being-sickness\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/590x\/2248080_1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The government has called the figures, which indicate someone fresh out of school can earn more by claiming sickness benefits than becoming an Army private, as &#8216;misleading&#8217;.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2248080\/stunning-data-shows-being-sickness\">Daily Express :: News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has called the figures, which indicate someone fresh out of school can earn more by claiming sickness benefits than becoming an Army private, as &#8216;misleading&#8217;. Daily Express :: News Feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2379,254,213,398,1711,470,12312,648,26372,3115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}