Hello to all who read this, I'm Faction. Or Paradox. Or Romana, whichever you would prefer. I'll take he/him or she/her as pronouns, again it's multi-choice.
I got another letter from the DWP today. Instantly I can feel my pulse pounding and my anxiety skyrocket, they want to do a Compliance Telephone Interview and immediately I think this is another persecution campaign. Someone malicious is going to bully me into tears, determined to prove that I'm some criminal mastermind scammer and will prove it by treating me like subhuman filth. Guilty before proven innocent is their strategy, I know this game all too well.
I call this woman called Alison and pray to whoever's there that she's one of the kind ones, that she'll have an ounce of compassion for her fellow man. It's about my Student Loan, apparently they didn't know about it and want documentation. I wrote them a letter informing them, clearly it went to Narnia or something.
Now they'll take it to a "Decision Maker". I'll have to live with anxiety of possibly repayments as they consider how much of my money they gave me they'll rip out. They might even send me into poverty.
It was only £3096, to start my university course. I just wanted to better myself, to achieve something. But they have to punish me for that, because how dare I try and get above my station. How dare I hope for something better. The people who are in this system are not at fault, they're just ordinary people working their job, trying to survive. It's the sadists who designed it to be cruel. The men and women who designed it to be so abusive. There's a damn good reason the European Court of Human Rights is investigating the DWP for human rights violations.
I don't feel like a human when they contact me. I'm a number in a system, a number they want to get rid of. I'm under scrutiny, and if I put a toe out of line they'll punish me with the glee of an authoritarian father with a sadism complex.
