Is it weird that I actually cried at this??

[hwwynd]

Single Mums finally win court case against the government, for this 'irrational' and 'unlawful' aspect of UC.

It's so unfair that low paid working Parents have to deal with severely fluctuating income and indeed lose income, solely because being paid by their employers on the last working day of the month clashes with their UC.

I'm amazed that the SSWP spent years and a lot of taxpayers money on trying to defend this.

I've been following this case since the start.

www.leighday.co.uk/News/Press-releases-2020/June-2020/Four-single-mums-win-Court-of-Appeal-universal-cre?fbclid=IwAR3Cdu-r2Df6i-YF-d6z1lP3i7R57sW8ZGRlKC3iTiozq6CVR2Lym-EpTGg

I'm low paid but my dates don't clash luckily. Just so happy for the many who are affected.

Just feel a bit strange that I cried!!

It's been so long since there's been any good news you were probably just overwhelmed lol.

I cried when the shops reopened...I have no idea why, but a news report on shop assistants clapping customers back into the shop just got me!

I put it down to job stress and the situation being very emotive.

I like this bit of the judgment:

“The threshold for establishing irrationality is very high, but it is not insuperable. This case is, in my judgment, one of the rare instances where the SSWP’s refusal to put in place a solution to this very specific problem is so irrational that I have concluded that the threshold is met because no reasonable SSWP would have struck the balance in that way.”

It really is extraordinary that the government opposed this all the way up to the Supreme Court. Their main argument seems to have been that it would be expensive to adapt the computer programme to cater for something that should have been programmed into the system from the outset, but that hardly justifies keeping in place a system that, totally irrationally, causes hardship to the most vulnerable members of society and disincentivises them from working.

I’ve been watching this case with interest, It doesn’t exactly affect me however I’m paid 4 weekly so for two months of the year I don’t get anything towards childcare. Whilst I obviously get 13 pay cheques, I’ve not been on 4 weekly pay for long enough to benefit from an extra pay and so each one pays for the next month. Hopefully once I get to the point where I feel the benefit, I can put the money aside but I almost wish they’d calculated my entitlement on my yearly salary much like with tax credits. Would have made budgeting easier. But still, I’m in a better position that the women who went to court so I’m still grateful

Yanbu - you always have stupid anomalies like this one when a new system comes in.
It must have been so frustrating for people concerned and I don’t understand why the government fought it.

One of the mothers had to decline a promotion and put her professional aspirations on ice because of the way the UC system treated her earnings. this pisses me off though. She could have taken the promotion she would have just lost out on her free benefits...

I cry over all sorts of things recently. I used to have to make myself cry about even the biggest things in my life and it was always big noisy ugly crying. Now every time I watch the news or something sad happens in a tv show I suddenly realise there are tears running down my cheeks without me being aware I'm even crying. Since the lockdown

Yanbu at all, and thank you for sharing this, it's fantastic news (even if insane that it has had to go this far) and something that should reduce hardship and anxiety for many, many families :)