To think my universal credit feels generous.

[MoonBaby1]

I got to my early 40s without ever needing to claim but circumstances find me single and paying the lions share of child related outgoings.

I work full time on£31,000 and have found out this year thanks to applying that I get on average about £800 from UC. It has been an absolute life changer and will hopefully be able to afford a modest uk holiday actually during the summer holidays and pay the school back some debt im in for after school care.

So many benefits bashing threads so I just wanted to present another side that as a cash strapped mum of two who works full time, UC is making a positive difference to our life. I didn't even think id qualify!

I thought you could get lcwra without pip. I know they had talked about changing it so you couldn't but I didn't realise they had. But the poster can claim pip first then claim lcwra.
Edited to add yes you can I just googled it

You can but someone would need to be earning less than 16x nmw before they will post out a UC50 form. Unless they are on PIP in which case this doesn't apply.

You are absolutely right. It needs to be dismantled and rebuilt.

16 times nmw what's that like £200 an hour im pretty sure the poster isn't a footballer

Couldn't agree more. My rent is in the SE is £400 to an HA. If the claimant had the same deal then the taxpayer wouldn't be buying someone else's pension fund via buy to let.

Per week.

That would cost an absolute fortune it already takes years to get pip and pip renewals as it is if every single person in the country had to reapply it would take about 10 years for the dwp to get to their form

You are talking absolute bollocks

They are not one household! They have also split up. You can live with someone and be separated, and the other person's income not taken into account.

I am on UC, and have a DP of 3 years. His income is not taken into account at all because we do not live together and do not share finances, just like the OP.

It is a very slippery slope to go down if you think the income of people you do not live with should have their finances taken into account when applying for benefits.

Right some of us have work in the morning enjoy your Saturday night slagging of people on benefits and the disabled. Night xx

How righteous of you to be a responsible individual.

I thought nurse pay increases over time

Necessary.

We're spending a fortune on holidays on benefits already.

It does. Uc would go down as earnings rise.

I hope you manage to stay cool x

If they are earning less than OP, then they would be entitled to UC too.

Thanks lovely you to x

Oh come off it... he only shopped her out of spite because she cheated on him.
If they were still happily together, and found the pills, I can guarantee he would have not done anything. If anything, show concern for health.

It is not up to you to say how other people make memories. It is none of your business.

I never said it was, dear.

Intuition and common sense indicate someone who is TRULY impoverished cannot afford a caravan holiday.

Xeno there is no defending her. She's a cheat in more ways than one!

Fraudulent 😂

Only if they had children

That too. Single adults with no kids get hardly anything, if anything,

😆 🤣 she went mad at her ex when her GP called her into the surgery for a meeting 😆 can you believe the cheek of her. Brass neck but it takes that to fiddle the system.