'Also I was disgusted at the council asking for all that money. How do they get away with that? Unbelieveable'
It happens to tens of thousands of working poor families every year, that and working tax credit overpayment.
The correct calculations of each are far, far beyond the abilities of any claimant, the BBC once hired a team of qualified accountants to try to correctly calculate the amount of one person's working tax credit. they were unable to.
Claimants truly have no idea and have to rely on the council or HMRC to get it right.
If they don't, even if it's no fault of the recipients, they can come back, however many years later, and demand full whack, effectively endebting and trapping many working poor families into even greater poverty as what little benefit they got is usually completely cut off until the debt is paid back and they have to pay a sum every month they can very ill afford.
Half of all children in poverty have a working residential parent.
I'm glad this show highlighted what many working poor families face every day.
A common theme, however, in all these programmes, is inadequate, poor and even dangerous housing.
Who's watching? Does anyone really care?