Let me see if I get this straight, natives on welfare are given enough to live on and because minimum wage is only a bit more they are opting to sit on their backsides instead which means all the jobs go to immigrants who will actually work for a living
No, that's not quite right.
Don't forget most of the 'benefits' you receive are not cash in hand, but reduction of bills (like c.tax, perscriptions etc) & other bills like rent paid directly. So you aren't 'given' x amount of cash to spend as you like. In fact the amount of direct cash you get isn't that much.
The benefit trap is because as soon as you work, you lose the vast majority of those benefits immediately, so actually being on minimum wage ends up with less overall money because all the bills are higher.
They talked about trying to get around this benefit trap by tapering relief, not sure how far that has gone.
And the reason immigrants can "work" for a living and live ok on min wage is because they bypass a lot of the laws native people have to adhere to, like no. of people sharing a home. When you have 8 adults living in 1 house then the rent/c.tax per person is very low, other things like not taxing/insuring their car etc
Whereas the native would be hauled up for these things, the immigrants are mostly overlooked, usually as it's too much hassle for them to be dealt with.
So as usual, the story isn't as black and white as "lazy native scum" blah blah.