It will bring serious and multiple issues if benefit rates don't increase next April. We have already been rationing since early 2022. We are still no better off for doing so.

Every household bill has increased beyond a reasonable rate, not just energy bills.

I was forced to replace my vehicle this summer. Paying for it, insuring and taxing it has taken a bigger dent out of my bank balance than anyone on a low income would like.

The money in my bank account is literally the only source of money I have to my name, no pension to think about, no savings to speak of.

This wasn't the way I ever imagined I would be living my life at my age, trying to raise a family single handedly all these years has been incredibly difficult on every level.

It's a depressing prospect. I'm not sure how much more of this cost of living crisis we can take. It's embarrassing to ask for charity, we aren't in debt yet, but that could change overnight at this rate.

I already have an empty fridge freezer. I can't face buying a trolly full of food that will end up going off and in the bin because I forgot to freeze it or our appetites change over the course of the week, or I'm unwell and can't manage to cook or eat anything.

I live with the dread of the landlord selling up or increasing our rent. It's a constant worry.

Nobody can be certain whether there will be funding to help with winter fuel costs, I'm already disgusted by the mould growth on our belongings since we moved here 18 months ago, because the house is difficult to heat aside from rationing the heating bills. I can see us still trying to claw our way out of the shortage in our budget after Christmas.

As it currently is, I've never felt so skint as this, in years.

So I'm definitely feeling the cost of living and the damage that was done by the Truss short period of time in office. My landlord is selling our home so we're having to find somewhere else to live – he told me Friday evening so not been able to get any help from any government or authority just yet, but I am blessed with a few good friends, who are already on the case and trying to help us, which has made me feel very emotional.

When we moved here, we thought it was for at least the next 10 years but because of the mortgage rises my landlord is selling up. He's a very good landlord and I'm very upset that we have to move, but I understand his situation and why he needs to sell – I just don't know what we're going to do. I don't have money to move, I don't have money for a deposit or anything and what's worrying me the most is everywhere I'm seeing online is £3000 and up per month. How is anyone able to afford this? I know my housing allowance won't. I can't work, I can't save, and I can't seem to find positivity from this. I'm scared we're going to be left homeless, or worse, in a damp mould filled property like last time.

It's scary and I don't know what the future holds for us or if we will have to relocate completely and uproot our entire lives or not. It's very upsetting. How is anyone meant to manage on the price increasing for absolutely everything? Housing isn't great where I am and £3000+ for a month to live in my town is so ridiculously overpriced. The government did this to us –why aren't they doing more to help?

My past experience was not very helpful .They ask me to apply for jobs which I was not going to be selected. I got job on my own and when I got job they were like oh let's us know how and trying to take the credit. We all know what job we can do and what we can't do.

I actually haven't received any valid employment support. I am actually having to look for work. I find that the Social Security office is really unhelpful, that my Universal Credit work coach is really unhelpful. It's really difficult being out of work for so long, like I'm talking ten years and then having to and kind of be left to your own devices. Things have changed in ten years. I'm in forty s now as well and it's really difficult to kind of be thrown into the deep sea and to be left to swim to shore all by yourself, so to speak. But I find that I'm struggling, I find that I'm under pressure, I find it difficult to try to fit things around my son who has additional needs but has no diagnosis, so I can't become his carer or anything. And it really just seems that they don't care that I have a professional background. They just want you to get anything and everything. But getting anything and everything still needs to fit in with family life. I'm a single mother, my father is ill and my mother works in the hospital. It's not exactly that I have anybody to help with childcare and childcare over. Northern Ireland is extremely expensive. More expensive than England, Scotland and Wales. And there are a lot of problems here with childcare facilities so it's like they don't really care. They will throw you - Universal Credit will throw you under the bus. They literally just have expectations and I think because I was an ex professional they just kind of expect me to just get on with it. And I am still a person, I don't put myself in a pedestal. And whilst I'm looking for anything and not necessarily a profession, I still need help, support and assistance and I'm just finding that that just doesn't exist.