A FAMILY of benefit scroungers who rake in ?42,000 of taxpayers' money a year have been given a new seven-bedroom home - worth ?300,000.
Jobless Kevin and Sharron Bishop get ?3,500 a month in handouts to keep them and their nine kids clothed and fed.
Scroungers ... unemployed Kevin and Sharron Bishop
The layabouts have now been moved down the road to live in two houses next to each other - knocked through to form one seven-bedroom address at a cost of around ?50,000. Neighbours watched as they moved from their old four-bedroom home at 23 Mayfield Road in Yeovil, Somerset, to numbers 29 and 31 on Friday.
Their belongings included flat screen TVs, sofas, armchairs, beanbags and DVDs.
Locals - who say the family even had new furniture delivered - were yesterday fuming at the parents, who haven't worked for 20 YEARS.
One, who didn't want to be named, said: "It is infuriating. We pay taxes to let them do nothing." Another said: "They spend their money on exotic parrots. They are fit to work but don't want to."
The Bishops' payout, which is around twice the average national household income, is made up of income support, tax credits, housing benefit and council tax benefit.
Yarlington Housing Group, which provided their new home, said the family qualified for a local scheme called Furnicare in which they can buy furniture and white goods at knock-down prices.
Perk ... flat screen telly
Yesterday, four old TVs were left dumped on the ground outside the new home waiting to be taken away. Ex-cabbie Kevin, who is in his 40s and chain-smokes rolled-up cigarettes, refused to comment. He said at his door: "I don't want to hear any more about this or I'll phone the police for harassment."
Sharron, 41, was unavailable yesterday afternoon because she was "still in bed".
Neighbours claim their kids, aged two to 17, have been responsible for petty vandalism and noise. One called them "foul-mouthed brats".
The Land Registry values the new home at around ?300,000. Yarlington Housing Group said the family were severely overcrowded in the old property.
It said of the new knocked-through home: "We had a duty to re-house them and this was deemed the most appropriate way.
"Should they relinquish it at any time it can be easily returned to two homes."
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Jobless Kevin and Sharron Bishop get ?3,500 a month in handouts to keep them and their nine kids clothed and fed.
Scroungers ... unemployed Kevin and Sharron BishopThe layabouts have now been moved down the road to live in two houses next to each other - knocked through to form one seven-bedroom address at a cost of around ?50,000. Neighbours watched as they moved from their old four-bedroom home at 23 Mayfield Road in Yeovil, Somerset, to numbers 29 and 31 on Friday.
Their belongings included flat screen TVs, sofas, armchairs, beanbags and DVDs.
Locals - who say the family even had new furniture delivered - were yesterday fuming at the parents, who haven't worked for 20 YEARS.
One, who didn't want to be named, said: "It is infuriating. We pay taxes to let them do nothing." Another said: "They spend their money on exotic parrots. They are fit to work but don't want to."
The Bishops' payout, which is around twice the average national household income, is made up of income support, tax credits, housing benefit and council tax benefit.
Yarlington Housing Group, which provided their new home, said the family qualified for a local scheme called Furnicare in which they can buy furniture and white goods at knock-down prices.
Perk ... flat screen tellyYesterday, four old TVs were left dumped on the ground outside the new home waiting to be taken away. Ex-cabbie Kevin, who is in his 40s and chain-smokes rolled-up cigarettes, refused to comment. He said at his door: "I don't want to hear any more about this or I'll phone the police for harassment."
Sharron, 41, was unavailable yesterday afternoon because she was "still in bed".
Neighbours claim their kids, aged two to 17, have been responsible for petty vandalism and noise. One called them "foul-mouthed brats".
The Land Registry values the new home at around ?300,000. Yarlington Housing Group said the family were severely overcrowded in the old property.
It said of the new knocked-through home: "We had a duty to re-house them and this was deemed the most appropriate way.
"Should they relinquish it at any time it can be easily returned to two homes."
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