I have been volunteering at the CAB for the last few months - a very rewarding interesting experience and informative about the level of hidden poverty in Britain.
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We get calls from people regularly who are have had their benefits suspended for a minor issue - often related to not getting to interviews (a rural area with very poor and expensive public transport) - they have no food and in one case recently the emergency food parcel was no use as it was all food that needed to be heated/ cooked and the individual had no money for the electricity meter. Vulnerable people who have just left an abusive relationship and have no idea how to access the benefits they are entitled to, people with learning difficulties stressed and depressed as they struggle to understand the complex benefits system. These are people coming in or ringing the CAB office daily.
This makes me angry and so I find it hard to raise the same level of ire for the benefit cheats - though I suppose I should - it is not the benefit cheats that are maintaining the cycle of poverty and low expectations.
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