universal credit
As one young person told me "life doesn't stop because you're waiting for your payment", Centrepoint's Abi Gill writes
"The Government’s two-child limit goes against this fundamental principle and is pushing many families and children into poverty."
“How can you expect anyone to survive on this?"
Government under pressure to scrap time limit penalising gravely ill people.
The group has dubbed the adverts "deliberately misleading".
Increasingly I see a system that is forcing people with cancer to jump through confusing hoops – and then wait five weeks – to access money to which they are entitled.
Dying people are forced to use foodbanks and miss vital hospital appointments due to "failing system".
The former care worker gave evidence as part of an inquiry into link between 'survival sex' and the new benefit system.
"I actually fought to bring more money into the system. I made sure more money came in..."
This is not a criticism of the hard-working frontline staff trying to run a complicated and problematic system – it is a criticism of a government which chose to ignore the flaws of this frustrating policy.