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  1. A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC @[email protected] ·

    A while back I posted about a friend who is on long term disability and will never work again. They were getting ESA and PIP... and it was just enough for them to live on.

    Then they were forced to apply for Universal Credit and by forced... I mean, threatened... it was you will apply by this date (in june or july) or you can fuck off and never get benefits again.

    So they had to apply, but left it until the last minute.

    All that is now sorted... except for the major flaw in the DWP plan that they never bothered to tell them, and that makes an utter mockery of the entire system and reasoning for forcing them of of ESA.

    Because they're still going to be getting ESA as well as UC.

    WTF!!!

    So what the DWP are doing is taking the amount they get from ESA, rounding it up for a year and dividing by 12 because monthly paid rather than bi weekly as ESA is.

    That amount is £1060

    They got notified that their UC was going to be £450 a month... and then a continued £281 bi weekly from ESA.

    So UC deduct that ESA amount from their £1060 which means £610 is taken of each month.... except they don't get that ESA 'monthly' it's bi weekly... and if you can do the math... £281 x 2 = £562... It means they're going to be down £50 a month for 10 months of the year... because bi-weekly payments means that twice a year, they get 3 payments in a month rather than 2... You might see it as a bonus... but when they're taking an extra £48 a month out of your pocket for 5 months... it has an effect on some one struggling to make ends meet.

    Are they expected to build up a debt for 5 months and pay the bill when that money is returned every 6th month?

    Perhaps the council tax, or gas, or electric, or water companies would understand that they can't pay the bill for the next 5 months because of this clusterfuck of a system that was designed by a toddler with the IQ of a delinquent Haddock.

    Just another way the govt fucks over the disabled.

    #UniversalCredit
    #FuckTheGovernment
    #FuckLabour
    #KierStarmerDisabledHarmer

    #universalcredit #fuckthegovernment #fucklabour #kierstarmerdisabledharmer
  2. A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC @[email protected] ·

    I see the tory scum are up to their usual antics... this time disguised as the Labour party.

    As usual, punish the poor, the impoverished, the disabled and the hard trodden... anything except make the wealth hoarding pieces of shit who now fund the labour party pay a fair share.

    #LabourLies
    #KierStarmerDisabledHarmer
    #RedTories
    #LabourScum

    theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2

    #labourlies #kierstarmerdisabledharmer #redtories #labourscum