This term is normally used in a pejorative sense. To point out the working class receiving state handouts when they don't need nor deserve them.
But this is a limited view of the term.
Benefit Scrounging does not respect class boundaries. The activity crosses the political spectrum quite evenly.
So wealthy people might be as much benefit scroungers as any other class.
How does one define Benefit Scrounging?
Any income received where you didn't input any of your hard work or savings onto it's production. This excluded gifts obviously which are already produced and the state cannot gift anything without having already robbed others by force and punishment.
Gifts are an important and separate topic - if I were to give to the needy directly, why would benefits be necessary? Notice how the state discourages gifting with extremely high taxation - their task would be done if we were permitted to gift the needy and we cannot have a state without needy people to exploit can we?
Charity is a wholesale and disgusting scam. And another topic too.
Back to benefits scrounging, which are in other words, freebies. You received a benefit. You did nothing for it. Benefit Scrounging.
State welfare is its most destructive form, especially for the recipients who the state is exploiting rather than saving. It's a state scam. If the state were authentic, it would immediately stop doing all the things it does which create a huge class of needy people. Right?
But the astonishingly 'poor creating' and 'economy destroying' welfare state is not the biggest cause of benefit scrounging. There's a much bigger one and it sits there in broad daylight right in front of our faces and under our feet and is perpetrated by every private household and private business.
I'll leave it to you to figure out what that is - because if you discover it independently you won't be able to or want to, deny it. It will a revelation for you, a great thing for your personal development. But you will have to go and look for it, IF, your are authentic. Seek and ye shall find.
Benefit Scrounging is not complex and is only hard to understand and take in if you're possessed by a 'jealousy of wealth' pathology. This pathology is most intensely driven by the left, socialism or the still deeper psychopathy known as planet saving.
Jealousy of wealth - a self harm mental illness where you have plenty, yet still hate anyone who has more, make hateful calls for punishment those who do, while forgetting that you have far more than those below you, so essentially believe you deserve punishing.
But it's by no means limited to these childish ideological mental health diseases. Pretty much all people are jealous of anyone who has acquired more stuff than they have. Again no one is free from this pathology either because it's part of the psychopathic narrative we called society.
To break free from the capture of a powerful ideology, of which being a benefit scrounger and jealous of wealth are parts, you have to simply stop believing all things you have been told to believe by your current master.
And to start 'knowing'.
Your current master is the psychological figurehead of the belief system possessing you, whatever that might be. You have to break free from your master because that is all that's stopping you from looking at what's in front of your face - knowing.
A scary action for anyone. Because by doing it, you will now be acting alone with no backing from the mob who still uphold the punishment laws of your unjust master. The mob closes ranks quickly on anyone seen running to this 'free land'. Or even seen thinking about it. And the mob takes no prisoners because they are rewarded with a bag of silver for grassing up anyone who tries.
So there are risks. And what are the benefits? If you manage to break free you will have earned something much higher and more valuable. It will no longer be benefit scrounging. It will belong to you, by eternal right.
The only party policy which can be a just one, is the one which says "We will immediately abolish all benefits, without exception. We will start out by targeting the biggest class of scroungers first. There will be no appeals and anyone who wants to object risks being asked to return all prior benefits to the common fund".