Comments on: Could you go five weeks without money? Under a new DWP plan you might have to

By: annoymous

annoymous — Sun, 19 May 2019 18:52:10 +0000

I get paid 4th June which is a long way off and have used my last packet of golden rice which I don’t mind eating. I have lost a stone in weight becuase the last 2 weeks I just cant afford 2 meals a day and have to ask for help from my parents only that wont last as they have been doing it for too long. I have been on this system for 2 years with little chances of getting a job being 37. I ask for a simple part time cleaning job, why has that become so hard?? I cant afford bus fares as theyve gone up so I ride 45minutes to our nearest town centre which is fine but not in the rain. I am miserable, fed up of applying for jobs every day just to look forward to being paid again. I am anemic so my body is confused with the crap I am eating. I try to eat fruit and healthier stuff but you cant on u.c I miss Jsa as at least there were some better options even getting the old budget loans I am paying back my current advance through uc and cant get another one. I sometimes wonder why there is any point to this. I have cried a lot today just out of sheer frustration. You cant go on the sick on UC it doesn’t really work anymore. Surely some people have become better off but I just dont see it.

By: Ste Murray

Ste Murray — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:36:00 +0000

I have been waiting 3 months now

By: squeed

squeed — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:42:00 +0000

In reply to Bob Digi. And they give you a 75% of €188 Xmas bonus the first week in Dec.. €188 is the flat rate dole per week for a single adult over 24!!

By: Fiona Gregory

Fiona Gregory — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:42:00 +0000

In reply to jeffrey davies. They won't have enough prison space to jail all of us.

By: Fiona Gregory

Fiona Gregory — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:41:00 +0000

In reply to Bob Digi. I might emigrate to Ireland to be sure.

By: Fiona Gregory

Fiona Gregory — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:39:00 +0000

In reply to IDS' biggest fan. Yes, even murderers and rapists get shelter and 3 meals a day. What example does that set?

By: pathetic 666

pathetic 666 — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:15:00 +0000

In reply to TimB. I know this is old but they told me about it at my interview.

By: littleoddsandpieces

littleoddsandpieces — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:28:00 +0000

The most recent signer of my petition against NIL STATE PENSION FOR LIFE that is coming with the flat rate pension 2016 to new claimants of women born from 1953 and men born from 1951

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Informs that as his retirement age is now 68 and he is on Universal Credit, and his wife is

5 years younger then him, he has been told that he will not get the payout of his state pension til he is 73.

So much of the state pension small print gives people NIL or far less than the already lowest state pension of all rich nations bar poor Mexico, that the flat rate is more about withering away or abolishing the state pension.

Labour is targetting Nick Clegg’s Sheffield seat.

If Labour did a u-turn and put in Labour’s 2015 manifesto repealing the Coalition’s Pension Bills 2010-2014 (includes the flat rate pension 2016 brought in by Pension Bill 2014) and paid out the state pension denied women from 2013 and equalised the state pension for men at 60 in 2015, then Labour would get a majority government and win Sheffield with a landslide victory.

Because it costs nothing to pay out the state pension, as it sits unused and unable to be spent on anything else since 2013 in the National Insurance Fund and wrong called a surplus by the Coalition and an old Labour member, John Prescott, who has been too long out of government and has forgotten that the NI Fund is the source of the state pension.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

By: JC Osborne

JC Osborne — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:07:00 +0000

Tbh this country is just going to end in civil war. you can only push a dog into a corner so far before it bites

By: TimB

TimB — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:46:00 +0000

You can request a short term benefit advance to cover the period before the first universal credit payment is made. There are two problems. Firstly, it’s a loan, clawed back from future payments of universal credit. Secondly, the DWP is extremely shy about telling people that it exists – it doesn’t even get a mention on their pages at http://www.gov.uk

CPAG have guidance at http://www.cpag.org.uk/stba-adviser-tools