Claiming Universal Credit, DB says I'm well off.

[Aphrael]

I've been claiming Universal Credit since September, it's currently at the "Assessment Rate" of £270 per month while I'm waiting for a Work Capability Assessment to determine I'm unfit to work. I've been cleaning PIP for a few years now and I have a Motability car. My payment after this deduction is £240 per month.

So overall I receive £510 and have to pay everything like electric, gas, phone/broadband, Council Taxx2, fuel for the car before I even consider shopping and I am struggling and having to rely on the local Food Bank, although I dislike some of the items they provide.

I sometimes have asked my parents/brother for money - for context my parents receive £2,200 per month and my brother & wife receive £1,750 per month.

While my brother has been willing to provide money and/or food last night he castigated me for being greedy, selfish and behaving in an unacceptable manner. Any advice also would be great.

AIBU - They don't have to support me and don't have to supply anything.
AINBI - Supporting me is a great thing to do as I am really struggling at the moment on the assessment rate.

One bedroom, I moved recently. Have received no DHP, and have a PIP review to look forward to!

Apply for DHP as soon as you can - you'll need to contact the council. I understand you're ill right now though, hope you feel better soon.

i don't understand why you have to pay any rent or council tax, it might be worth contacting your local citizens advice to ask them to look at your benefit awards.

Maybe the £80/month is service charges not rent?

Being a single person on benefits is so shit. My dsis was on about £80 per week when on JSA.
She didn't pay rent but still had to pay some Council Tax.
When they closed the local Job Centre she had to travel by train to the nearest one. When she mentioned this to staff their attitude was well so do we. Not on £80 per week you don't

YABU. Nice of them to help out but they aren't obligated to. What they earn is irrelevant. It isn't their responsibility. Appreciate help if and when they give it without expecting them to support you. You're an adult I'm sorry for your issues, I too have a disability and chose to find work that I CAN do rather than be in a position of relying on payments and struggling (I was limited in what I could find and do but I looked until I found something appropriate). That was a choice I made rather than expecting my family, who don't live with me, to carry me.

This whole thread is unbearable and shows how little moral compass so many in the U.K. have now.

It seems a large percentage of the country has turned against receiving benefits for whatever reason.

My poor mum has died now but she developed a progress condition which left her eventually bed bound fed through a tube and unstable to speak, up to that stage she couldn't use her arms or legs due to muscle stiffness so was in a wheelchair all day, and needed help with literally everything. Before her illness she was working and had worked for 30 years.

I have a friend who is nice but her parents have always been sceptical of the benefits my parents received due to my mums condition, they have questioned things like why my dad only worked 15 hours at the onset of the condition (as my mums carer) and why did they need a brand new disability car when my mum couldn't drive it anyway. To answer these my parents would have lost so much in benefits if he had worked just an hour more that we wouldn't have been able to even eat, this was while my brother and I were still at school so four of us living in one house. I only had a few items of clothes apart from my school uniform and just one pair of non school shoes. It is not my parents fault that working extra hours leaves a family on benefits extremely worse off. And the car, some people do not understand how often you need to travel if you have a severe disability, frequent appointments to specialist locations which can be a long distance away, a brand new car is to reduce the likelihood of breakdowns which would likely have given my mum a seizure if she was sat in the cold in her wheelchair for too long. On top of this there was cost of heating which needed to be kept above a certain temperature and the electricity to charge If you aren't close to someone with a disability then it is likely you have no idea how

mindset is everything, you can work, if you want to.

To hear statements like this is insane, no one here is the OPs doctor and knows how unwell they are.

electricity to charge the wheelchair and to run the air mattress to prevent bed sores that should say.

If you aren't close to someone with a disability then it is likely you have no idea how much it costs to just live. I am more than happy to pay tax to support those who need help, in fact I feel grateful to be able bodied enough that I can work.