£3 busfares will ruin me

[Deportationsensation]

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Childminders work from their home!

She said she uses the bus to commute.

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?

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.

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

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.

mumsnet never fails.

I have replied because I was WORKING.

Hair extensions were a gift because having nicer hair is the one thing that makes me feel better since I can’t afford new clothes etc all the time. theyre bought for me each year by my DM for my birthday.

Yes budget is usually is £15 but is now £10 as I do an extra day at work (same hours just spread out) meaning additional busfare.

and to one of the first posters who said I should work more hours, the last time I did that things got so bad I attempted suicide.

I don’t know why this site claims to be supportive. Vipers indeed.

@Runssometimes

2009, that's a long time back now.

besides do you have magical busses that don't use roads, cause delays, cause accidents or use/ cause any of the other 'costs' listed £20.9 m on delays. What a mental thing to blame on cars!

you as a bus user do not subsidise me as a car driver.

your hair extensions were a gift?

Just to remind you

Im high maintenance, eyelashes, hair extensions the lot.

It’s a cap.

OP, if you're mentally unwell and also have other health issues that prevent you working more, are you sure you can't get PIP?

Perhaps you just need someone to help you with the form?

So why exactly do you not qualify for universal credit?

PIP has nothing to do with work

Imagine choosing eyelashes over food

Who buys your fake lashes for you?

Why do you describe yourself as high maintenance when you're only gifted hair extensions once a year?

How come you can take a bunch of children to a park and frolic in the dry leaves with them but you can't work more?

Does your DM know you can't afford to eat properly, OP? Can she help you?

Do they also offer free lash extensions?

Can you condense your hours so you work them over 3 days instead of 5? What do you do? Is there anyone who can give you a lift?