Government response to universal credit petition

[divorcenightmare]

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200213?reveal_response=yes

Talk about not acknowledging any of the real problems caused by universal credits.

Love the job centre being characterised as "personal work coaches".

Extract:

"Universal Credit provides unprecedented level of personalised support. People receive tailored support managed through personal work coaches, who know each person’s case and have more tools than ever before to help people prepare for work and get a job."

That's going to help weekly workers who go into arrears because of not getting UCs in a 5 week month .

I was part of one of the focus groups asked to give feedback when UC was at White Paper stage.

Every group involved pointed out the problems, how it would impact on people, but the Government was determined to put this into practice.

I've signed, but I don't think they will back down on this, tbh.

Cities are losing Public Listed Buildings, because they are having to be sold off to counteract the cuts.

Social housing is being sold off, because they can't be filled, because of the bedroom tax. So now everywhere has a housing crisis, not just the South.

That's without the hardship that people are experiencing.

This is the Governments plan, though.

It simplifies the system and provides a single payment for people in or out of work which ensures that people are always better off working and better off working more

Thats the more telling bit I think. The aim isn't to make being in work pay enough to live, its to make benefits punish you enough you'll do anything to avoid being on them

Time to scrap universal credit as I am borderling poverty and losing my home through this farce of a system that will never work and will end up costing the taxpayer more money to put it right to implement a fairer and quicker system.

Hi @angieaw

It is a shameful system. I’m sorry that you are being failed by the country. This could be any woman’s situation if just a few things changed in her life.

How do you think they could improve things for women & children if they changed universal benefit? I imagine it’s the entire process that needs overhauling?

Some of us are discussing what can be done on this thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3244817-Universal-credit-domestic-abuse

Would really value your input

I'm with angieaw - I'm facing much same nightmare , I'm in 3bedrom rented semi my kids have all grown n have flown the nest,I now live alone and was managing fine with help of rent rebate however due to my arthritis I could no longer do my job but apparently not bad enuf for pip or similar I stopped working in may and I'm 54 yr woman looking for a career change would u believe ( that's what iv been told I must do ) therefore receive only £650 per month and my rent is £400 ,so I'm left with £250 for gas electric car car ins tax council tax insurances food ,toilet ass etc its absolutely impossible and I cannot get help any we're Xmas was my worrst ever I'm always totally penniless to survive I try to juggle miss something one month pay it next month n miss something else resulting in rent arrears of £1500 and after working all my years trying to raise kids i now at this age am gony loose my home I reared them in something I never saw coming I'ts absolutely sole destroying , I feel incapable I'm embarrassed its an out rite disgrace what this government is doing to its own n that's the place I'm at with the whole situation never in my life did I think at my age after renting houses since I was 16 also worked my a* off since then now at 54 I'm being thrown out my home sometimes I just wish I wasn't here at all cos I'm certainly not looking forward to living in some hostel or homeless facility ,