£3 busfares will ruin me

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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.

I have two autoimmune diseases and am waiting for an operation. I’m in constant excruciating pain. I also run a business and work 12 hour days. I’ve been in the position of no money v working through pain. I chose to put food on the table and pay my bills.
You need to work more hours. I’m not trying to be cruel, just realistic. Complaining to strangers on the internet won’t change your situation

Is on the first page.

OMG! You need reading lessons. I said the people I replied to were both defending the OP. Neither of them were saying bad about her disability. Please, I beg, actually read and digest before responding.

Odd that you disabled voting on this. However YABU. Get a better paying job. Move somewhere you don't have to travel as far, create your own business...etc.

You wont know until you apply if you will get Pip or not you may also get UC Go to Citizens Advice or your local council for benefit advice and income maximisation

Have you tried to apply for UC?

You sound like you'd get something? I know someone posted recently they earn £29k but still legitimately qualified for £500 UC per month.

I know you shouldn't believe everything you read online but I know know several people in RL who qualify for UC and they aren't being forced into food poverty like you describe you are!

All very viable and attainable options!! Honestly.

The Conservative manifesto pledged to extend the £2 cap on bus fares in England for the whole of the next Parliament;

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-tories-conservative-party-parliament-england-b1163628.html

Any food banks in walking distance op?

The usual idea of selling on vinted. Even just things for £10 a week as your goal

Could you ask for a raise?

Is there an older person in your street you could offer to do thier food shopping/cleaning/ironing for £10 a week

I am sure their budget would have been very interesting had they won.

Well the nation chose to vote for a vile and uncaring government, this is just the start and Starmer has only just begun. I feel so angry that the people of the UK were so blinkered… you reap what you sow… idiots!

If your food budget is £10 then I am assuming that you are on a relatively low wage. Will the increase in minimum wage benefit you? If so, then that should offset the increase

Your posts are like a rather belligerent article generator.

I didn't bloody vote for them!!

Stroll on, and be mad at someone else.

They lost the election because nobody believed their promises. Where exactly was the money for the spending spree the manifesto promised going to come from?

I’m sorry to hear that OP.

I understand you have health issues but could you condense your hours, so you are doing longer hours over fewer days?

Perhaps you should contribute helpfully to threads instead of spouting nonsense constantly.

She can’t afford to eat because she is spending her money on private weight loss jabs!

If you earn over £393.45, you don't get anything as a single person.

No.

That's the minimum you will get as a single person over 25.

If you're that badly paid you'll be getting a pay rise with the increase in the minimum wage.

A few other people mentioned the PP who made the point that she was disabled so could work full time, so OP could. Why did you pick on me in particular?

Katemax82
Glad to hear it, full applause 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 (and no this isn’t sarcasm, I genuinely mean it).
Those who told me they were going to vote Labour pre election, I honestly begged them not too, and they are the ones crying into their hankies…idiots 🤯😡

It's not most single journeys don't cost £3 that's the joke! A day return was £4.80 last time I bought one.

OP claims to have only £10 per week left over for food, after spending £20 on bus fare, so if she is making over £393.45 per week, I'd like to know what she is spending the other £363.45 (92%) on that's a higher priority than eating or getting to work.