Over half of people on universal credit 'ran out of food in past month'
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2024
- A charity is calling on the government to increase support after a survey showed more than half of people on universal credit ran out of food last month.
The Trussell Trust is urging the government to introduce an "essentials guarantee", so the basic rate of universal credit is always enough to cover life's essentials.
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The main objection to this is that people will spend that money on things like food, clothes and energy to keep warm. How awful that ordinary people should want these things, not
It depends on how generous the UK government want the social security to be, if they make it too generous then people will not want to be in work because they are getting government handouts.
This does not promote good moral behaviour.
However the system has to be there to support people as well, mybe there should be a limit to how long someone receives universal credit if they are unemployed on non medical grounds.
In the United States of America they limit public assistance and public handouts, and people have to find a job in six months, or rely on savings.
Zero hour contracts should be banned as well, there is a lot of people employed but still on universal credit.
@@olliecooper4232or the government could do what they should and look at our methods of production and energy creation strategy and start using our scientists minds. Unfortunately the principle of increasing profits year on year that has embedded itself in capitalism will continue to eat earth and its population with little care for consequence.
The whole system needs to change it's unfit for purpose, same with PIP being disabled and mentally unwell does not properly support it isn't not enough the government need to change it so vulnerable people get the right support and not sent to courts fighting back their money and end up in poverty or dead
Im on UC looking for training and experience and at this point think the goverment would rather me die or disappear than invest in my skills and ability to contribute
Anyone with any sense knew when the tories brought in universal credit, it wasn't to simplify the benefit system but to save money by cutting the benefits under the guise of universal credit.
It was appeal to certain types of people, like some in the comments section here.
The Tories taught them that all poor people were scroungers that hadn't worked hard... That there was millions of people that have never worked etc.
Those people bought the lies.
Those people voted for the liars.
In the last 13 years we've gone from a few thousand emergency food parcels being needed to MILLIONS being needed.
But the people that bought the lies still believe the lies and still vote for the people that lie to them.
@@linedwellI agree. Of course there are always people who will buck the system but those are a tiny minority. Right wing nut jobs think everyone on benefits is having a whale of a time, pathetic really.
And yet people who have full-time jobs have ended up using food banks
@@Getonwithit204 people with full time jobs are often on Universal Credit because employers don't pay fair wages.
@@linedwellSo we can say that UC is used to subsidise employers? and wouldnt it be better instead of government handing out money, they actually controlled the cost of living?
And how do u explain this to Rishi Sunak, who is net worth is 700+milion pounds...?
He doesn't have a slightest clue, how do ordinary people struggle every day to meet basic needs!
I am signed off sick with a serious heart problem. Have been refused PIP and after rent i am left with £100 per month for food, Gas, Electric, water etc. The lowest rent around my area ( All my family are here so don't want to leave is £850 per month ( increased from £ 700 per month last year). The government only pay a max of £599 per month for housing ( a room costs more than that these days.
I'm so sorry it's not easy is it no one likes having to ask for help the community shop near us a accepts food donations and puts the food on the shelves anyone who is in need can select what they can use and take it home no one has to prey or anything just take what they need that's how it should be
Please contact your local CAB for support with a new PIP or mandatory reconsideration.
@@starforce1003 Will do. Cheers
Keep trying for PIP don't give up
It's no wonder because we all have to pay bedroom tax...it's disgusting!
I can understand the point we have to pay bedroom tax for any spare bedrooms we have,We pay or move out,When there is any bedrooms spare,Can be ideal for a family to move in to
@@dalebenton3354Councils and Housing associations said years ago that there isn't enough one bedroom properties available for the people who need them. The tories knew this from day one, it's a simple money making exercise.
@@dalebenton3354There are not enough one bedroom properties to go around so they have no option but to pay this ridiculous tax.
Labour are planning to raise the bedroom tax.
Get given a place to live and still not happy 🙄
Trying to get empathy from a tory is like trying to get blood from a stone.
I work full time and still had to use a food bank last month to feed my partner and my son. I live by means and still struggle.
This is the biggest tragedy of today’s UK. I feel for people on benefits but working people should absolutely never be in this situation even if they’re on minimum wage
I give when i can i am a pensioner i have own hard times so i buy a couple of items per week and take it round when theres enough im just happy if a needy person gets some food
We are fast running out of other people's money. Anyone dependent on the government is going to have a very tough time in the future.
It’s a shame this U.K. 🇬🇧 how did it come to this?
14 years of tories.
lack of investment for decades by businesses, many jobs in the UK are unskilled - hence why big businesses like migration, they dont need to automate and hire more skilled labour fixing machines. A corrupt way of measuring inflation by the Bank of England. Ask youself, instead of handing out more cash, perhaps the government should actively reduce the cost of living by: building more homes, strengthen the pound so imports become cheaper. But they wont do that as many zombie businesses would become bankrupt. In the end they wont be able to stop it anyway and we are seeing only the begining.
What exactly is a shame? That nobody wants to wake up at 5am anymore like the rest of us workers paying taxes?
All part of there plan
explains the increase in shoplifting
Will just get worse fair play I say
UBI incoming...
Oh, poor souls! Think of the taxpayer who has to fund all this generosity, the more public spending is increased, the higher taxes have to be increased to pay for it, especially in a stagnant economy.
The onus is on UC claimants to improve their lot so that they become independent of government welfare hand-outs: work more hours, train for a career etc.
Too much of an entitlement culture, and not enough of people thinking of how they can contribute back to society.
If taxpayers didn’t fund this then they would be funding the extra police and prison places needed when the inevitable crime wave that would ensue as people become increasingly desperate.
The truth is our economy is not productive enough to support enough higher paid jobs for people to service the enormous rents/mortgages now.
Lower birth rates, fall in home ownership & rise in shoplifting are all evidence of this.
We’re in recession for a reason.
Well said
its over for the UK, its been over for a while now.
Rather than increasing universal Credit... how about they get these corporations to stop inflating their prices just so they can make record breaking profits. Thats the real solution. The amount these corporations are making while people starve is absolutely disgusting... and the only reason for it is corporate greed and satisfying the stake holders in their exponential growth death spiral.
The shops are profiteering. So are energy firms.
Let’s send more money to elenski….
Forigen Aid has nothing to do with this.
What we need is for everyone to be given £2000 per month whether they work or not.
imagine going from just under £380 ish a month to £2k!
Could actually be able to do things rather than live like hermits
That seems grossly unfair to those who work for a living. And where is the money going to come from?
Okay, Lewboski....
After £700 tax, I don't even see £2000 in my pay packet.
I can go along with that if there was a system where that 2000 gets to be an allocation to accommodate such people to specific designated places and pay towards the basic needs (not wants) via some coupon method instead of outright providing money. Ideally it should also monitor their lifes as much as possible and offer some carrot/stick methods for them to develop. But I cant imagine this being realistic at this point both because it will be resource intensive to governments and their track record on efficiency isnt great.
We need to grow more granuals for smash! With enough smash we could feed millions.. If the goverment could invest in more smash farms we could grow packets of smash for all the poor people!
there should be an extra amount for LCW people
A lot of grassroot organisations are doing amazing work and typically free labour for such a broken system.
This is so sad. I pray that those starving and in poverty will be helped. God please help these struggling people 🙏
What in the cost of living payment !
I've just retired. I don't get a state pension for another two years, I'm not entitled to any benefits (which is fine) I have a small work pension and I manage just fine.
This is the result of Tory economics and Brexit when I came to the UK in 2012 with my parents it was known as one of the best places to live today it's literally worse off than places like Spain and Italy which is a huge disgrace we have replaced hard working EU immigrants with middle easterners who only sit at home and protest for their own causes like Palestine all day long the Tories wanted better but they only caused it to get much worse people now don't have food rents are unaffordable some are using the common travel area and flopping over to Ireland because even their living better now the UK is a complete disaster.
Well your problem is easily solved isn't it.
I didn't say my problem is I said some peoples who move away from the UK.@@bertiewooster3326
the reality is that both sides of this argument are correct -- in specific cases. in the general sense, however, the system is not fit for purpose.
It rewards filling out paperwork and attending doctors' appointments and quite often makes it impossible for people to leave the system without facing a reduction in living standards.
We've created the classic poverty trap.
It means they've paid the electric though.
They haven't heard of olio then ?
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Unemployment is £340 a MONTH
A MONTH.
gas, electric, council tax, rent top up, insurance, internet to manage your claim, travel to the job centre weekly...
It simply isn't enough.
How much of your bills would £340 a pay? Electric and gas? Your car? Maybe your Council tax and TV?
And council tax is due to go up again
Don't hit the bitter and twisted with facts. They don't like it.
People that are fit to work should be put to work in the community service sector until they find work. Save money that way
@@JJones-oi3jcI believe in such a scheme myself. By providing community Service style jobs they could act as an employment agency of sorts. The government would make money to support the scheme and the unemployed could get an increase in support for taking part. Even if it was part-time it could help a lot of people get on their feet with a decent amount of support. There is currently nowhere near enough support for people who are unemployed and looking for work. But knowing the government they would make money from such a scheme and not give people enough support expecting them to work for nothing.
@AdamWoodsUK it also gives those with low self esteem to realise that that can do a job, that they can contribute to society and push themselves on to better things.
The main issue is identifying a genuine need for support. Maybe, some individuals who could potentially contribute to the country's growth through employment may be choosing to rely on universal credit without adequately proving their financial struggles. Addressing this concern could redirect funds to those who genuinely require assistance.
Left with about ten pound a week to live on
I know, let's let thousands more desperate people in. 😂😂😂
Which has nothing to do with this.
How did we manage before food Banks? We made meals out of left overs. I remember eat almost nothing nothing but rice vegetables, bread and cheap cheese. Pasta was cheap too.
Before food banks? How far back are we talking? Alms for the poor era?
How can people cook with left overs when they have no food in the first place hence using food banks
His account is less than a day old.
Don't feed this troll.
Well whats the point of increasing national minimum wage from April when everything else will increase aswell so we will always be worse off which means people will be in debt and will want to borrow but cannot so there will be problems so silly
How they work out pensioners need over 200.00 aweek and universal credit is 300 amonth is ridiculous nothing against poor pensioners but private home owners yess
Maybe those concerned should try managing their budget and lifestyles more, make some adjustments.
The massive draw on tax payers will reach a breaking point, if it hasn't done so already. There comes a time when some pushback is wise.
Peter Bone was a hard right low tax Tory. His family had a gold plated season ticket on the Tax Payer Gravy Train.
Sickening hypocrisy.
Well I suppose they could go without heating and buy food instead but hypothermia isn't a great lifestyle choice is it? I see British Gas only made £751million profit this year after making £72million the year before, hmmm wonder why people are struggling to buy food?
@@chrysalis4126 So go and ask British Gas for a hand out, good luck with that.
ahh but then make sure its only going to BRITISH CITIZENS, something like 90% of these wonderful cultural enriching migrants end up on benefits
When asylum seekers are cleared to live here as immigrants a tiny tiny percentage are on benefits. Until they are processed the govt won't let them work.
as long as politicians a the boat lot r ok stuf white brits
The people who line up waiting for the local food back always seem to be scrolling on expensive mobiles. Top trainers, too.
Cause maybe they had money to spend at the time ?
Most of them are on contracts, and catalogues the never ending debt circle many people cannot Budget toytown money
@@deano_bites never heard of a phone contract getting someoen into debt but do your ting.
Queuing up for food
Is this Russia?
Maybe they should wear rags and have cans with strings. Fact is the vast majority of people who use food banks need them. Get over it.
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Clown show.
Send more money to Ukraine 👏👏👏
Free plasticine for under 5s 🇮🇪 🇮🇪
Forigen aid has nothing to do with this.
I was born into poverty and worked my way out, but these losers want access to money from my pension. Swivel.
your name tag says it all
Granted there are some desperate people in need.
The first thing I think people on the benefits should do is submit records of where money is spent.
If cigarettes are bought then the next benefits payment will come minus the money they spent on cigarettes/vapes/alcohol. Any luxuries or non essentials.
So they spend all there money then just rely on further handouts.
We are creating something like when the charity Christian aid was going. People being reliant on handouts and never helping themselves out of the mess they are in.
Tbh with the support I get for my disability , and my Uc payments I can just about afford the food I need plus the stuff to help me cook and I eat a lot more because it stops me from shaking and having bad muscle spasms and fits if i eat a specific diet everyday and stick to it so for a fully abled person I don’t understand how they can’t afford food unless there getting takeaways and buying unnneeded items. Buy stuff that’s lasts and even if it takes a couple weeks go to all different stores to get the best quality and cheap foods. Remember to freeze things that might go off.
Tell these Universal credit claimants there are plenty of jobs available.
Food banks just help them continue to spunge.
Get a job simple don’t depend on universal credit it’s going to get worser
They all use drugs, cigars , alcohol and branded accessories where as others work very hard to meet the end. Once they started working their problem resolved.
Make sure Husband & Wife have a good job.
But I'll bet that most of them run a car (luxury), smart phone, and have spent money on things like booze and ciggies. I'd also place a hefty bet that most don't cook for themselves. Finally, how many could go out to work, but simply don't want to?
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Some, but not all
Propaganda !!! Let’s talk about the money taken by those at the top ! Benefits are in comparison a drop in the ocean !
@@pearl2910 What a lie! Benefits are one of the largest expenditures in this country, which are crucifying those of us who pay taxes to fund them.
@@DavidGetlingThe biggest amount spent on welfare benefits is on pensions. As a matter of interest tax fraud is 9 times more than benefit fraud. That's the main problem.
simple get a job like i did and stop living beyond your means