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27 Apr 2025
Diary

Lexie B

Please try not to surround yourself with toxic people's. leave life and don’t allow life leave you. Everything happened for a reason be grateful for life peace ✌️ and love ❤️.

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27 Apr 2025
Q&A

Lexie B

Have you ever had to leave a job because of a lack of support? What do you wish had been different?

Hello everyone based on your question lack of support can make someone lose their job, for example the company and co- workers are not good to you, or the job you are doing cause you back pain, and also chest pain, and the company is doing anything in getting the equipment needed to carry out the job I will kindly leave because health is very important.

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22 Apr 2025
Diary

Meg K

I'm just glad back to school and back to normality

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22 Apr 2025
Q&A

Meg K

What's your experience of trying to access support from your local authority / council like?

Rubbish to be honest.

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18 Apr 2025
Q&A

Rudy G

What's your experience of trying to access support from your local authority / council like?

My experience is Ok but is hard and difficult to find the proper support, normally they send you We cant support or We no available to dealing with your situation, is hard to received the proper support. In my case after many many tries I found the advisor to help me with my situation.

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14 Apr 2025
Diary

Sophia V

Universal credit have ask me to upload a CV.

I have worked in retail for many years and as well as doing short courses and raising a young family.

I feel being on a a low income and raising 2 children under the age of 10 gives me little time and finances to better my further education prospects.

There is very little support for mothers over the age of 35 onwards to go to college or even university part time.

This is so frustrating.

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12 Apr 2025
Q&A

Dotty G

What does good employment support look like?

I've never really received much support from the Jobcentre to get into work, if anything, they have always put the onus on me, by asking me, what I am doing to increase my chances of finding work, rather than ask me whether there is any support they could give me in order for me do so.

I don't think that the Jobcentre do take people's individual circumstances into account, especially if you have a health condition or physical disability, because when I was telling them that I had such conditions, they still had me in the 'actively seeking work' work group category, which meant that I had to look for work for 35 hours or more a week until I was eventually recognised as having a 'Limited Capacity to Work'. This was after having gone through a series of assessments with them. The whole process took more than 2 years for me to be awarded as having a limited capacity to work.

I think good support to get into work should aim to help individuals find and retain good quality jobs, which should involve personalised assistance, addressing individual needs by integrating with other relevant services.

Good employment support should also focus on an individual's health and well-being and give them access to relevant, well paid work opportunities should any health issues be identified, and if the individual wants to work. I don't think they should be forced into it though, especially if they don't feel well enough to do work, or are just not ready to find work as yet.

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8 Apr 2025
Diary

Bessie J

👉🏽 Important change

If an adult friend or relative lives in your home, the DWP usually expects them to pay something towards your rent.

This means money is taken out of your universal credit housing element.

The DWP calls adults who live with you ‘non dependants’.

From this month (April), your universal credit housing element will go down by £93.02 for every non dependant adult who lives with you.

Your universal credit is reduced even if the person does not pay anything to live in your home.

Read our advice to find out more about:

🔹 who counts as a non dependant

🔹 when the DWP should not reduce your universal credit

👉🏾 https://shltr.org.uk/Sfmyn

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5 Apr 2025
Q&A

Ed I

How was 'school readiness' for you and your children?

My children were developing well in their childhood but it was hard to train them to do potty by themselves before go to school. Nursery school where they kept toddler for few hours a day but expected that toddler will do everything by them selves. Staff at nursery was reluctant to change nappy and feed toddler which made me anxious. We tried best to make our toddler ready for the year one where they were able to continue school independently. Initially spend lots on toddler's nappy, take away food etc to make them independent.

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5 Apr 2025
Q&A

Ana Q

Do you think that your mental health is affected by your income?

Nowadays I have more mental health than my physical health. My physical health can stay in one place with medication and treatment but my mental health fluctuates based on family relationship, housing situation, medical conditions etc but my financial burden is the most that contributed on my mental health. Every month have to worry whether I can manage my family with the limited income and benefits. If benefits increase then that make me smile and on other hand decrease of income poses badly on my mental health.

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4 Apr 2025
Q&A

Ed I

Do you think that your mental health is affected by your income?

Mental health have direct relationship with the income. For example when we get bonus or earn some extra money then this make us happy. This make us feel free in mind, relax a bit and positive towards our future. With the positive mental health, people can lead healthy physical life which ultimately burden less for the NHS and can build a happy nation.

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30 Mar 2025
Diary

Beverly W

I deliberately didn’t watch Rachel Reeves deliver her budget earlier this week. I couldn’t stomach watching her live. Besides, there’s already been no end of her appearance on everything everywhere all week, and the contents of the budget have been hung out to dry for all to see and hear all over the TV, radio, and internet as it is—so it’s not like I missed out.

However, I wish I could have missed out, because the changes will bring misery and turmoil to me and my family.

I feel depressed enough at the idea of a reduced income, as well as then being pushed into finding work (if that’s even a possibility) just to afford a reasonable standard of living.

Aside from despair, there’s so much anger in the air across the UK at the moment—in my humble opinion, it’s difficult to imagine anyone’s fearful voices are actually being heard through a thick veil of red mist.

We’ve already had a really difficult time financially lately, and the consequences of having even less money to live on terrify me. The impact of less income wouldn’t just affect me—all my family members would suffer too. We’re talking three generations of family all reduced to living on a pittance, simply because the government is targeting the disabled, of which I am one.

I only hope the government does a complete U-turn on these plans.



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