As a #Disabled single parent on #UniversalCredit I desperately needed the #SpringStatement2022 to provide some sort of relief from the #CostOfLivingCrisis we're facing.
It doesn't...
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It doesn't...
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If I use 15L of petrol/diesel in a week I can expect to be 75p a week better off?
It makes little impact when petrol is up ~50p a litre since the pandemic/Brexit.
75p cut, vs. a £7.50 increase? It's meaningless.
I need a lot more to get by than 75p a week!
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It makes little impact when petrol is up ~50p a litre since the pandemic/Brexit.
75p cut, vs. a £7.50 increase? It's meaningless.
I need a lot more to get by than 75p a week!
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Then there's the doubling of the #HouseholdSupportFund - that's a discretionary. You have to plead with the council for it.
You have to set out why you, specifically, are failing to cope on benefits and deliver your full bank statement for scrutiny so they can criticise you.
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You have to set out why you, specifically, are failing to cope on benefits and deliver your full bank statement for scrutiny so they can criticise you.
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The raise in the threshold of #IncomeTax will impact people earning over £800 a month.
As most families in receipt of benefit work but are paid very little it will help some of the employed poor. It won't help me. I haven't made £800 a month even once since I got sick.
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As most families in receipt of benefit work but are paid very little it will help some of the employed poor. It won't help me. I haven't made £800 a month even once since I got sick.
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The #VAT being scrapped on home #EnergyEfficiency measures won't do much for me either. As a private tenant I can put a foil insulating barrier behind the heaters I guess, but I already did. The roll cost £7.
I can add heavier curtains but they aren't being discounted.
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I can add heavier curtains but they aren't being discounted.
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What I needed from the chancellor was about a 20% overall increase in my income.
I would love to be exaggerating, but I not. The gap between the cost of a simple but non-damaging lifestyle for the children, and the money I have available, stands at several thousand a year.
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I would love to be exaggerating, but I not. The gap between the cost of a simple but non-damaging lifestyle for the children, and the money I have available, stands at several thousand a year.
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We are in real trouble.
I have given considerable thought lately to committing crimes and to suicide.
I'm one of the better off parents on Universal Credit because I have a disability UC recognise (even if I don't have PIP). Imagine how bad it is for others.
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I have given considerable thought lately to committing crimes and to suicide.
I'm one of the better off parents on Universal Credit because I have a disability UC recognise (even if I don't have PIP). Imagine how bad it is for others.
7/7.
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