AIBU to ask what help the government will put in place to ease “cost of living crisis.”

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I have read they are considering extending the criteria of the current Warm Home Discount eligibility and increasing the amount of the grant to support the most vulnerable in society. I think targeting support is a good idea and helping those who really need it but I don’t think that is enough. There was a change to universal credit taper rate but that didn’t bumper most peoples benefit up enough to cover the £80 covid allowance they removed. It’s not just energy prices going up, super market price are increasing week on week, petrol prices are through the roof and I am sure there are lots more examples, so what would you like to see put in place? Universal credit allowances increasing to cover inflation costs and the benefit cap to rise by as much would be a welcomed start for a lot of people I am sure but else could they do? News paper reporting they are do out of touch with real life they are failing to come up with a support package.

💐 rubbish isn’t it. I’m so behind on bills too!

@Flowerpower23 my utility bill has tripled can't afford to pay it yet !!

Not quite sure why people feel the government has to do anything at all, really ?

If we wanted a government that did something, then a good start would be electing one.

But since we elected a Tory government, with an 80 seat majority, we're pretty much getting what we deserve. Fuck the little person, rule Britannia, and don't think about protesting because it's now illegal. That's if you are British enough to stay here. People with non-UK parents might want to tread carefully.

People clearly forgot (or never bothered knowing about) the 80s when miners and steelworkers were laid off in their tens of thousands, and unemployment hit 3,000,000. There were calls that "the government should do something" then too.

They didn't do anything then. Why would they now ?