01/12/2019: When a single mum in week three of the five week wait for her first Universal Credit payment drops to 6.5 stone having foregone meals to feed her two sons and plans to prostitute herself for Christmas presents until the foodbank steps in #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
02/12/2019: When a mum calls the Department of Work and Pensions to ask if she can reschedule a later signing on appointment to attend her son's Christmas school play and is told if she misses the existing one, she will be sanctioned #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
03/12/2019: When a working couple, on a restricted income and struggling to feed their daughter after their claim for Universal Credit immediately stopped child tax credits, send her to the breakfast club before school to ensure she gets fed #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
04/12/2019: When a lady claiming Jobseekers Allowance fails to turn up to her last Job Centre appointment before Christmas to sign on because she was in hospital having had a heart attack and returns home to a letter saying she has been sanctioned #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
05/12/2019: When two teenage daughters are referred to the foodbank after their mother is admitted to hospital for attempting to take her life when she fell into into rent arrears and received a letter telling her to vacate the property by Christmas Eve #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
06/12/2019: When a young girl discovers her school provides sanitary items after telling her guidance teacher that she had her first period and used kitchen roll because she did not want to stress her mum who only had £6.20 until their next UC payment
#WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
#WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
09/12/2019: When a young man with a short-term disability corrected by surgery transfers from DLA to UC, receives £12 in month two of his claim placing him in arrears and forcing him to cancel Christmas family plans because he cannot afford train fare #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
10/12/2019: When a man born without either arms or legs has to fill out a 24-page fitness-to-work questionnaire three weeks before Christmas to ensure he is able to keep receiving benefits over the festive period #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
12/12/2019: When a mother of two teenage sons living with cancer and proceeding through chemotherapy, while in receipt of Disability Living Allowance, is medically reassessed and found fit for work, has her DLA removed and six months later is dead
#WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
#WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
13/12/2019: When a married couple with two sons both lose their jobs in the same week and the husband, who fell ill, finally loses statutory sick pay, they cannot maintain mortgage repayments and lose their home a week before Christmas #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
15/12/2019: When a husband has a stroke and retires due to ill health and his wife, who gives up her job to become his carer, struggles to pay rent on top of bills, they fall into arrears and apply for homeless accommodation ten days before Christmas #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
16/12/2019: When a single mum made redundant a few months earlier arrives at the foodbank a week before Christmas saying through tears that her little boy asked if he had been bad this year because there were no presents under the Christmas tree at home #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
22/12/2019: When a single man gives up work to take care of his elderly mother, takes ill himself and is advised by his GP he requires a triple heart bypass and to apply for DLA, but is then informed he is fit for work and eligible for Universal Credit #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
23/12/2019: When two little girls are put to bed one hour earlier each night by mum and dad, so they can switch off the lights, to try and save on electricity the £40 they lose each month since being moved from Jobseekers Allowance to Universal Credit #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
