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Have goverment decided yet Bout the extra 20 pounds
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@calcotti yes I I agree I do get all my council tax paid and I only pay a very small amount towards my rent as I am a private tenant I consider myself very lucky
If I was earning I would have to pay council tax and most of my rent I belive that has been said that alot of people in benefits do struggle after my bills have gone out what they call disposable income I have 300.00 when I worked and paid rent and council tax and my bills my disposable income was 50.00 both figures monthly
In my case even though I do want to work and I am on scope job support I am better off than my last paid job
I just wanted to put another view on the situation
But over all if you are on just a normal single person benefit I think those are the ones that suffer the post -
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lisathomas50 said:The total payment with both my pip and uc a month is 1200.00 how is this poverty line I live on my own thats what goes in my bank once a month my job I was doing to get thst much money in my bank a month I was wotking 12 hrs a day 5 days a week
Yet I am still happy to find another job and work because I like working but I don't feel like I am on the poverty line not as a person with dissbility I feel very lucky I am aware that people eithout disability do get less money
But at least we are better off than some countries who don't get benefits or help with housing and have to pay medical bills
In my own opinion I think the UK do pretty well ☺
For example, someone under 25 on UC waiting for their assessment will be living off just £256.05 a month and likely won't be getting full rent paid. Add a 1-year-old to their household and their income is just £491.88 a month for them both to live off, while often having to top up rent, etc.
£256 for all bills, food, clothes and potentially a rent top-up is pretty low - and lots of disabled people find they are awarded LCW (so no extra money), so that is the reality for many of them too.
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@Adrian_Scope yes as I put in my last comment I do agree I was just putting a different view that not every person is on the poverty line due to being on benefits
There was a good programme on called living on benefits about two years ago there were a family of 8 livring on benefits and with all their benefits and their rent being paid and monthly money they were getting was nearly three thousand a month
They were going on holiday had the best of everything
Poverty shouldn't be happening in this day age but people value you money in different ways and have different ideas about what is essential
When I was younger I lived on the streets for two years people say sorry it hapend to me but I am not sorry I learnt alot I still had food sometimes had good shelter sometimes bad but there were akways people to talk to people to help still had the bit of money back then you would queue for your daily giro outside the job center so you could go abd fet your bit of food
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Even people in full time work sometimes struggle to make ends meet..so benefit payouts matching a working wage still doesnt make many people better off.what i mean is basically standard rates of wage nowadays are not as good as what they should be! And people on benefits mostly dont get that amount straight away either, so by the time you have been assessed and awarded and backdated most have got into debt struggling and borrowing until awards are put in place.the stress involved in doing all this is almost as brain draining as actually working full time! You mostly have to chase things up and argue and appeal etc...then the fact that you are instantly forced into debt when first claiming universal credit with the advance payment you generally need to apply for whilst first payment arrives! All that on top of trying to deal with health issues is really tiring on the mind body and soul.
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"Just need an update really on what they are doing for people on uc credit.. I'm classed has vulnerable and had goverment letter advising me to stay at home, I'm also on pip, I dont have any family to rely on, and it's been hard during this pandemic.. just bed to know what the goverment are doing, because that extra 20 a week comes in handy, especially because I'm unable to work at the moment and havent for a long time because of.my mental healthHave goverment decided yet Bout the extra 20 pound"
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Debated yesterday
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-02-09/debates/50814D06-6F47-44D9-954B-EA5D4171C2B1/SocialSecurity
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There is a photo doing the social media rounds of 220 people queuing in the snow on Monday in Glasgow outside a soup kitchen !
And people say there is no poverty in the UK ?
I'm going to e mail my tory MP and demand he votes for retaining the £20, his name is Richard Head !
link to story:
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/homeless-teams-photo-huge-soup-19811740
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@woodbine homeless people are another thing altogether they get benefits and they get help but as you said in a previous post will 20.00 be enough to help someone who is homeless
The government need to put more money into the homeless campaign when corona virus first started the government got them off the streets so corona virus didn't spread
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It's terrible I've just seen in the papers, that a 21 year homeless lad was found dead on our streets in manchester,
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Before the pandemic we often travelled through Manchester when going to see our daughter and grandson the number of homeless people walking down from Piccadilly station to Piccadilly gardens was truly heart breaking, even more so that many of them were young women, we always took a pocket full of £ coins but we would make sure we would also spent a minute asking them how they were, I'm not ashamed to say that often I had tears running down my cheeks. It annoys me beyond belief that there are so many rough sleepers in the 2020's.2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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@bevvy40 there is a homeless death memorial page on Facebook I am a member of you can also donate to the rough sleepers charity and also join the campaign to get more homes and support for rough sleepers if they can do it in a pandemic they can do it after as well
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@woodbine I saw that photo too. It's heart-breaking to think this is modern day Britain. So many are going through so much.
@lisathomas50 They are some good ideas for how to help but I'm inclined to agree, the government have a responsibility to do more.
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@Cher_Scope the government have a responsibility to do alot of things but they don't its mostly thorough campaigning and volunteering and the public that bring the awareness to the government before they even think of doing anything
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Thats very difficult to prove either way Mike, but I would rather take my chances on a £1 going to a "scammer" then not give and risk not trying to help. A friend of mine has the attitude that if you give them money they will only spend it on drink or drugs, well tbh I would be walking round off my head on drink and drugs if I was homeless in all weathers.2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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There are thousands of homeless people in wales there are so many some are women with children that hide deep to stop social services tskeing their child when found they are the first to be rehoused
Its not always a choice to live on the streets its situations safer on the street than at home mental health there are many reasons as @woodbine said its better to give a pound than miss someone who is realy in need
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