Been a really hard day was told it would cost over £1100 to fix my car after a terrible MOT, only paid £1400 originally, but with living in a rural area we need a car. Its so annoying, I cant seem to find a cheap car just to get us by, my partner has mobility issues but we are still waiting for mandatory reconsideration from PIP, its just so frustrating. I am unable to see how with the cost of living and everything else how we are meant to make ends meet.

This is a hard one, because it would depend if it included rent as well, with UC it includes your rent payment, also depends on how many children you have and then add on disabilities in the household, it would be wrong to put a figure on this as i would not like to come across as greedy, but due to circumstances right now, we have just lost our car due to MOT and there is no price you could give to allow me to have a car where we live, as we live in a rural location that only has a bus every hour in the day. So with all these issues i could not put a value on this. See adequate is different for everyone. So i am unable to put a figure.

I recently claimed UC and was awarded £26 a month, plus childcare, though household income is about 36k between us & we have a 7 year old... I'm applying for DLA for him at moment, wondering if will rise with inflation and the cap be scrapped. We are struggling to meet our bills and buy food and live in Wales so have heating oil. Oil price went from £280 for 6 months to £580 in summer, which is unaffordable for us as extra £50 pcm... Our parents had to help us. We don't seem to be eligible for warm homes discount yet in our mid 40s we rent as we cannot afford to save for a deposit to buy a home. My parents are eligible for lots of help with heating bill because they are pensioners, even though their house is worth 800k. I just don't understand why it isn't means tested and distributed more evenly, or why heating oil isn't even mentioned.