Faith N

On October 10th I spoke at a world mental health day event in Belfast. I made a connection between poverty and mental health issues and the struggles of being on universal credit which domino’s into our children’s mental health. At the minute universal credit are forcing more and more people back to work who are either not physically or mentally well enough to do so. I am one of these people. On top of that they have through random selection chosen me to provide 4 months worth of bank statements and I find this massively intrusive. I understand they want to know what money is going in but one manager at UC admitted he was looking at the transactions. Well these statements are over summer so of course I’m going to be spending more and my youngest likes eating out because we never go on holiday.