Aurora T
What did you make of the Autumn Statement?The rise in Minimum Wage and the Local Housing Allowance unfreeze is very welcome! I cannot help but feel sceptical about the budget overall - as in; where will this money come from? And I understand it’s a budget for the impending election.
The government are now after those who are disabled and the unemployed will be penalised by sanctioning. Having been a stay at home parent and then a widowed parent of two young children, I found it very difficult to find work that fitted around the school hours and as a result I was capped on benefits. This in turn made me spiral into debt and it took me 4 years after my late husband had died to find suitable work. I’m sure there are families who will be pushed into destitution by these policies. Again we live in hope that these measures do not come into effect and that there is a new party in power who will scrap these brutal policies.