Comments on: Skint Britain: response to series about life on Universal Credit shows government is still not listening https://leftfootforward.org/2019/02/skint-britain-response-to-series-about-life-on-universal-credit-shows-government-is-still-not-listening/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:36:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: William Webster https://leftfootforward.org/2019/02/skint-britain-response-to-series-about-life-on-universal-credit-shows-government-is-still-not-listening/#comment-976124 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:36:45 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=135178#comment-976124 The whole systems corrupted, there is just excuse after excuse for the government to pit there hands in your pockets and remove your last penny.. have you heard about the CMS?.. I’ve lost my career of 15years, forced into poverty, forced onto universal credit, told i have to work 35 hours a week looking for work and give timings of every application sent and provide evidence or i will be sanctioned! Never mind the fact that it takes an entire day just to speak with the HMRC and the CMS, who the CMS say they get the figures from bur when you speak with the HMRC they tell you that they do not share any information with the CMS and that they’re LYING!! .. So whils the CMS are taking £150 per week for a single child from somebody’s wages directly from false calculations apparently recieved directly from the HMRC and adding charges as they please, a person like myself who was temping and only earning £250 per week is then sent into debt. Any attempt to rectify there calculations only makes it worse, i personally have had 3 years of bank statements lost on 2 separate occasions and have been told that my sensitivity documents that apparently they never received were destroyed?? Wow! I mean like WOW.. are they even trying to come up with a convincing lie, or is it just me? … Ive place a subject Access request and ive not heard anything back from them yet apart for an acknowledgement letter stating they recieved my request, its going to be a month in 3 day (its now Thursday) .. but snap back to the universal credit agreement you’ve made so you can try to afford to eat! You’ve now wasted an entire day getting the run around so now you’ve got to spend even more time catching up on proving youve been looking for a JOB.. 4 weeks of job search equates to on average 140 hours plus all the time you have to keep logging back into the portal to upload your application timings individually to prove you aren’t shooting up heroin.. and, you’re actually looking for work! You’re brought into the jobcentre sat with the junkies who all have more money than you by this point only to be told by an “experienced benifit advisor or Jobcoach” you’ve not done your job search correctly! And you can be placed on sanctions and threatened with even further financial damage!.. excuse me?.. I’ve worked, I’ve payed my taxes! I’ve been victomised by a system that is “not fit for purpose!”.. 5 weeks into severe poverty, you’re hungry and you’ve lost your home and your career.. you’re then told that youre only going to receive £164 for that month you’ve spent working full time looking for a job.. let do some basic maths now.. 140 hours devided by £164.00 equates to £0.84p per hour.. but this same government that says the minimum wage is £8.25 can say a human being must live off of a tenth of what they dictate to employers is adequate??. Am i stupid? Did i come down in the last rain shower? Hmm so now that needle of heroine is looking like a great option! .. sorry to be blunt but it’s about time someone spoke up! I’ve had everything I’ve ever owned stripped from me, ive had my own child taken from me, I’ve lost my career of 15years, im in debt to the tune of 15k and even if i do go get a job, any chance of clawing back some sort of life will automatically be taken out of my wages without consent by a “government organisation” that is totally unregulated!.. so now you see that heroine needle as an easy way out or maybe if i killed myself then someone would ask why? Why did this happen?.. but thats not what I’ll do, i have a son i havent been allowed to see for three years and he doesn’t deserve to be told his father was a waste of space ar his father gave up on him.. not allowed to see his father because his mother said so.. because his mother can make demands for contact orders without good reason, but she can refuse to go to mediation! But if the father wants to see his child he has to summon up thousands of pounds for a family solicitor to be given the run around buy the childs mother.. I have a C100 in my possession, but I’ve been so financially damaged that i cant even afford to eat let alone pay £350 to represent myself in court. I’ve never been violent, i dont do drugs and there is no reason as to why i shouldnt be allowed to see my son. Ive been thrown from pillar to post by these corrupted “agencies” enough for one lifetime and i hope my story can show them exactly how desperate they make people with there “polices” and there shear disregard for human life.. as far as im concerned they should all be held responsible for manslaughter given the current statistics of suicide rates.. but will anyone responsible for this absolute shambles be held responsible?.. im guessing that not a single one of them will see a day in court… like i said the whole system is corrupt and it probably wont change anytime soon.

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