Pip changing to vouchers ??

@stay_positive You are lucky but unlucky really. In some respects life has been very kind to you, but also the downsides.

As the saying goes, there is always someone worse off than yourself. At least you have the option of selling the house and then moving into somewhere cheaper to live. Sadly, you have people that do not have that option. So despite not wanting to sell your home, where you are happy to, but if push comes to shove, you are in a position to downgrade and still have a home.

My worse fear is being homeless, and ending up on the streets and my exit strategy was to go to Gibraltar and just live on the streets. At least it is warm, if I do not get deported back to England.

I too have worked all of my life, and in the forces when I was 20 serving Queen and Country to see it being destroyed and it's people that I put on a uniform to serve and protect having to go through this. I knew all of this was coming, but never expected it in my life time.

If I am desperate enough, I might qualify for some form of pension as my lungs were damaged serving during the first gulf war and a lot of my trade either have COPD or worse lung cancer, one of my old Cpls died at 60 years of age from cancer. I cannot run, I cannot do press ups, so I have no chance of working in a manual job, and as my mind has gone pretty much in that I can look at a microwave meal and see how long to cook it for, by the time I get it to the microwave I have forgotten.

I have even got that desperate I started gambling, thinking that I could win enough to cover the basics, but ended up losing money that I could not afford to lose.

Sadly, the DWP and the Government will take you down one way or another, my uncle who worked all his life, paying for a mortgage lost the family home, so went back to the banks, where really the Government should have been saying, well hang on, we can invest in these properties buy them from the banks for peanuts, put them as council houses and charge the tenants to live there if they wish. He also died at 60 not even getting a pension.

So, you have more to hope for than most, so you have to keep that in your heart and hopefully it will help you through. It sounds like you have a good marriage and you are both helping each other through the tough times, so think of that as a blessing.

Life is like a book, the first chapter starts when we are born, and each new chapter is a blank page, that a lot of those chapters we are not in control of, but some we do have control of. You have the power to write the next chapter.

However, as you say, hopefully nothing happens to PIP so fingers crossed.

@AKR ok legal eagle, I was a multi billionaire space astronaut from the other side of the galaxy. You will know me as Elon Musk, I have human form, but I am a shape shifter.

Lengthy legal career and you are on scope website? You should be made of money and not in need of help from Scope, but ok.

@AKR I really am Elon Musk, a space alien from the other side of the galaxy, can we please get that straight. I might have to get a discrimination lawyer myself at this rate.

However, I could argue that Santa Clause is real, because I was told that he was as a child.

I could copy and paste and use AI all night to post legislations etc etc.

However, child poverty act? LoL when you have parents that are going without food, just so that they can feed their children? I spoke to a woman, yes a real woman not a blow up one, who was living on beans on toast or going without food so her Children can have something to eat.

I have known other women, that done illegal activities to feed their Children.

Sadly, what you believe is real, is all fake and made up, British natural born British have less rights than someone that came into this Country via a rubber dinghy.

Where are the human rights lawyers for us? Oh they don't exist.

What the previous Government and what this Government will do equates to genocide.

Where is the justice for homeless British people, especially people who like myself put on a uniform to serve and protect this Country, but are living on the streets with PTSD?

The Government are not your friend, the pantomime that you watch on TV, they are all best buddies in the house of commons bar when the camera's are turned off.

You can trust me on that one, I know a lot of people ranging from CID, RPO's and above from my life experience.

I could solve this Countries problems within a year. The Governments of the past have had decades but they are all about themselves, which is why they are all multi millionaires.