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£3 busfares will ruin me

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Deportationsensation · 30/10/2024 14:56

Busfare cap to increase to £3. That’s £6 a day for buses. £10 extra a week.

My food budget for 1 person is £10 a week. So that’s my food money gone to pay for buses.

I can’t work more hours. I do what I can in working part time because I have health issues that would not qualify for PIP but affect me every day. Not qualifying for any benefits other than probably food bank use. Which I will now have to do.

AIBU to just start wondering what is the point? Life isn’t supposed to be like this. Some of us are just trying to survive with no enjoyment in life at all.

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StormingNorman · 30/10/2024 18:44

OP I also have chronic illness, permanent pain and the fatigue that comes with all that. I work full time because I don’t have a trust fund to fall back on.

I think it would be worth seeing if you can creep your hours up. Even another 5 hours a week would help.

shellyleppard · 30/10/2024 18:36

Op if you get pip you can get a gold card travel pass. Free travel after 9.30 am and anytime at the weekend. Might be worth contacting citizens advice and check you are getting enough financial help

XenoBitch · 30/10/2024 18:35

PuddlesPityParty · 30/10/2024 18:33

What? You seriously think she should be on here pleading poverty when she can afford to spend £££ on hair extensions? The gymnastics on here honestly.

No, my point was someone with a certain health condition berating others with the same for not working, is not on. Nothing to do with OP and her hair extensions.

PuddlesPityParty · 30/10/2024 18:33

XenoBitch · 30/10/2024 18:27

I don't think that matters. The whole "I have x but can do y" thing, and applying it to everyone else with x, is a shitty thing to do.

What? You seriously think she should be on here pleading poverty when she can afford to spend £££ on hair extensions? The gymnastics on here honestly.

iamtheblcksheep · 30/10/2024 18:33

No it isn’t. It’s realism. I would claw my way to work on my hands and knees to put food on the table and pay my bills. If you can’t work because you are physically too disabled to do so that’s one thing but the OP said she wasn’t entitled to any benefits and would have no food. Therefore her choices are claw her way to work on her hands and knees or starve to death. Which would you do?

murasaki · 30/10/2024 18:33

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XenoBitch · 30/10/2024 18:33

Shinyandnew1 · 30/10/2024 18:31

Childminders work from their home!

She said she uses the bus to commute.

Shinyandnew1 · 30/10/2024 18:31

XenoBitch · 30/10/2024 17:30

Apparently, OP works as a childminder. You can't fire up Teams and do that from home.

Childminders work from their home!

dawngreen · 30/10/2024 18:28

Try looking for a food pantry near you. My local one ppl pay £6 a week, and can get like 2 bags of food a week. Have had £25 food voucher from them too, and help with grants for a oven. Foodbanks give 3 days worth of food, and you have to get a voucher to visit. Citizens Advice or Money-buddies are good for debt help too.

XenoBitch · 30/10/2024 18:27

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I don't think that matters. The whole "I have x but can do y" thing, and applying it to everyone else with x, is a shitty thing to do.

PuddlesPityParty · 30/10/2024 18:25

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PuddlesPityParty · 30/10/2024 18:25

HalloweenHaribo · 30/10/2024 17:16

£10 a week for a balanced diet and basic needs is not sustainable.

I think the OP made a typo.

We were on the same thread the day before yesterday and she said £15 per week.

She must’ve made a lot of typos looking at her other spending habits people have mentioned.

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 30/10/2024 18:24

iamtheblcksheep · 30/10/2024 15:03

I have two autoimmune diseases and am waiting for an operation. I’m in constant excruciating pain. I also run a business and work 12 hour days. I’ve been in the position of no money v working through pain. I chose to put food on the table and pay my bills.

You need to work more hours. I’m not trying to be cruel, just realistic. Complaining to strangers on the internet won’t change your situation.

No, you’re judging everyone by you and how your diseases affect you.
I have MS and work full time, don’t get any benefits of any form, never have-but I wouldn’t sit here on my throne looking down on everyone else with MS judging them by how my disease affects me.
Thousands of people with MS are too disabled to work.
you might not think you’re cruel, but you are just being plain nasty and also completely incapable of understanding that every disease affects every person in different ways.

@Deportationsensation, you cannot survive on £10 a week for food. That just simply isn’t enough to provide 3 meals a day, seven days a week. You are going to make yourself seriously ill!
Please seek some advice, with so little left over to nourish yourself, there must be something you qualify for.

Runssometimes · 30/10/2024 18:18

@AutumnLeaves24

a report from the cabinet office 2009 had these figures

COSTS
Road building and maintenance £9bn
Excess delays £10.9bn
Accidents £8.9bn
Poor air quality £7bn
Physical inactivity £9,8bn
Greenhouse gas emissions £2bn
Water pollution £5bn
Noise pollution £5bn
Total £57.6bn

INCOME
Vehicle excise duty £5.4bn
Fuel duty £24.9bn
Other taxes £17.8bn (VAT on fuel, car sales)
Total £48.1bn

Shortfall £9.5bn/year

and fuel duty has not increased since 2014. Public transport goes up every year. AND active travel infrastructure investment has actually been cut and is literally a fraction of what is spent on road infrastructure,

that’s also before you account for the costs of pollution on health,

remember that E-vehicles generate no VEH but as they are so heavy it’s thought that they damage the roads more which is something we all pay for to repair.

greenday16B · 30/10/2024 18:09

Maybe she meant 100?

PandoraSox · 30/10/2024 17:57

JaneEyreLaughing · 30/10/2024 17:07

I'm sorry to hear this OP

It really does show what a load of old shite net zero and the massive budget given to the lunatic Miliband to take us all back to the stone age is.

If he and his sixth former colleagues believed in it, believed that we must all suffer to bring about net zero, then making bus and train travel dirt cheap or even free would be a priority.

But of course they won't because despite hysterical yelling from Ms Thunberg et al, the whole net zero is a con that makes people like Miliband richer and people like the OP poorer.

Write to the twat and ask him if he will give you a lift in his fuel guzzling government or personal vehicles. Of course, he may not be in-he may be off flying to a climate change conference. Maybe his planes fly on pink farts and so are totally green.

Net Zero means, 'Give me a big budget to spunk up the wall and increase heating bills while making public transport more difficult to access.'

Of course, Net Zero is the new religion and people get quite angry if anyone speaks against the creed but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Because surely, if the situation was as dire as we are told, then even our dimwits at the helm, could see that making public transport more difficult to access is not the way to help it.

I suppose some quite angry or patronising people will come along to explain how Net Zero is perfectly compatible with keeping people on the road. Crack on and fill your boots.

I suppose some quite angry or patronising people

Oh the irony! I am guessing Miss Eyre is not happy today.

Have you read the full thread? All is not what it seems.

XenoBitch · 30/10/2024 17:49

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pecanroll · 30/10/2024 17:49

OP not come back? Shocking.

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CheshireCat1 · 30/10/2024 17:45

I have a free disability travel pass that I can use on buses and trains due to my health condition. Could you not apply for one of those or you could apply for access to work scheme that can cover travel costs.

1Yell0w6Sticker7 · 30/10/2024 17:31

Instead of bus, can you use a bicycle ?
Some people give bikes away for free or little money on Facebook Market place, Olio, Gumtree etc

XenoBitch · 30/10/2024 17:30

orangegato · 30/10/2024 17:27

Can you get a WFH job?

Apparently, OP works as a childminder. You can't fire up Teams and do that from home.

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 30/10/2024 17:28

Coralsunset · 30/10/2024 17:28

Quite…

wise up people!

It's amazing how many people don't bother to read past the opening post.

lolit · 30/10/2024 17:28

iamtheblcksheep · 30/10/2024 15:03

I have two autoimmune diseases and am waiting for an operation. I’m in constant excruciating pain. I also run a business and work 12 hour days. I’ve been in the position of no money v working through pain. I chose to put food on the table and pay my bills.

You need to work more hours. I’m not trying to be cruel, just realistic. Complaining to strangers on the internet won’t change your situation.

Jesus Christ it didn't even take one page

Coralsunset · 30/10/2024 17:28

greenday16B · 30/10/2024 16:18

What is the cost of the beauty treatments?

Quite…

wise up people!

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