I will contact UC and see about that but I doubt it and have found getting hold of them by phone very tricky, as they want everything online and journaled etc. Now.
I'm not getting into my pregnancy etc. It's a more complicated situation than I'm willing to get into here but was ultimately a very difficult choice.
Ex partner also very complicated but I'm not going to take responsibility for the things he did to me and the situation I'm in because ultimately I am not responsible for someone else abusing me and I left as soon as I could.
Yes I understand that "people make choices" etc. But ultimately people also end up in situations through circumstances beyond their control also and I am doing everything within my control to get back on top of things etc.
I had a lady tell me yesterday when I spoke to her for some advice that people like me are the reason she pays her taxes. Because some people need temporary assistance.
As I said, I have the privilege not right to use the welfare state as someone who has paid into and who's family has paid into that system for people to use when and if they really needed to.
I think before you right me off as feeling entitled (which I don't I feel privileged) you should check yourself. You don't know what and where other people come from, some of us have had to overcome more obstacles than others.
Some of us have to climb mountains on a daily basis just to have a peak at the foothills of the mountains others start at the top at and look down at us from.
Don't assume we are all dealt the same cards. Some of us are starting off with hand up while others are dealing with a hand of crap. 🙄