What are your thoughts on today's budget?

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  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,712 Online Community Programme Lead
    lisathomas50 said:
    @Adrian_Scope my support worker totally threw me  thats why I needed to check it   thank you 

    If I was still on esa in the support group would I have been better off than uc 
    No worries Lisa. 

    Whether you'd have been better off depends on a few different factors. UC standard allowance plus LCWRA actually pays more than ESA Support Group. But those receiving SDP were worse off under UC. 
    Can you remember why you had to change to UC and whether you were receiving SDP before? 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    I was on esa support group  then I got a full time job but still received a small amount of esa  but then had a pay rise and  I was earning to much so esa stopped and I was on working tax credits I had a stroke so I couldn't work  stayed on esa until I was fit for work and when I went to claim working tax they said it had changed  to universal  credit 

    I think from my own calculations I am better off  I not haveing a good day I am in a quandary and its started all this uncertainty  off I cant cry even though I want to I have lost two friends they both died  but one of them was my very close friend and God father to one of my children we lost touch and he found me again in 2019  he was my first gay friend he died of heart attack at 59 years old 
    I didnt get to say bye the day he died I missed a call off him  

    I don't know how to deal with it  I don't know what to do I lost him once  but now he is gone for good ?
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
    edited March 2021
    @lisathomas50 I'm sorry to hear that.  Grief is a hard process and some days you really do feel that loss.  I'm sure your friends knew how much you loved them so think back to the happy memories and times you shared together.  This Mind webpage has information about coping with bereavement and please let the team know if you feel you would benefit from additional support.  Look after yourself <3
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    @lisathomas50 sorry  for the loss of your friends must have been a shock 

    Talk things through with friends and family bereavement is a long process and there is always support from bereavement counsellors if you feel the need 

    Take care 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    @janer1967 thank you I wish I could cry  I just feel not right 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    @Cher_Scope it's because I missed that phone call  the day he died thats what we were doing remembering the goid times  I csnt belive it that he is just gone  fit and healthy always winding me up 

    He came to my work one day dressed in dragg lol ? he was the life and sole  of any party 
  • calcotti
    calcotti Online Community Member Posts: 10,005 Championing
    Username_removed said:
    No surprises really. Can’t say I’m euphoric as some are about the £20. It’s still about £80pw too low to live on.
    And it’s only a (grudging) extension for six month six anyway. No opportunity taken to recognise that basic benefit levels are too low. (which is not a surprise but is nonetheless disappointing).
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    Hope I find a job soon my situation my change again though if a family matter goes a different way  
  • Audinut70
    Audinut70 Online Community Member Posts: 133 Empowering
    The budget was a typical conservative budget, take from the working/lower class and give it back to the bosses, their mates. Please anyone, dont tell me you're surprised! 
  • Audinut70
    Audinut70 Online Community Member Posts: 133 Empowering
    I have one problem with the math! Boris personally shouted about £350m a week we will save after Brexit, we're 2 months into total independence, so where has this money gone? Or was he hoping we'd forget about that!
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    Probably never existed or has been eaten up by the money that has been paid out on the pandemic 

    I want to know what happens to all that money when people are fined for corona virus rule breakers the government have raked in thousands on fines so far 
  • Audinut70
    Audinut70 Online Community Member Posts: 133 Empowering
    Yeah, there's a thing! Its the nurses and the caring profession that deal with the aftermath, I really feel bad for that profession, one minister basically saying they should be grateful for their jobs. I really hope the people that voted these arrogant clowns back into power are satisfied with their decisions!
    The NHS has NEVER been a priority for these muppets. I suspect they would love to sell it all off just to get it off their backs.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 156 Empowering
    Budget was the usual Tory tripe. Take off the the poor to help the rich!

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