If I lose my PiP, my partner and I cannot afford to keep the roof over our head, food in the freezer, and the house warm.
The heating will be the first to go. We don’t run the heating downstairs as it is usually, to keep the costs down a chunk. That’s not going to help either of us physically or mentally, and it will damage the house, which we can’t afford to repair.
In order for me to re-enter the workforce, I would need retraining, as I can no longer work in the field I used to. In order to do that, I need to find the money to pay for college, to be able to go to university. University and the loans I would need would be partially based on my disability status. Great, except if I lose my PiP, even if only temporarily, I lose my funding and get booted from Uni.
All of that assumes that someone would even employ a fresh uni graduate who would be nearly 50 by that point.
You see, unless UKgov is actually going to properly rebuild the system (it’s not), I am stuck where I am and there is pretty much fuck all I can do about it.
Taking away the money that literally makes the ends meet isn’t going to miraculously heal me, train me and make me employable, is it?
What it will do is ensure we bleed out to the point of having to sell the house, and use the proceeds to pay off the mortgage. We’d end up with more money left over than you can have and claim UC, so we’d have to burn that to pay rent till it was gone, then claim UC and this time housing benefit too.
So yeah, great job. It’s going to ensure that we end up costing the state even more in the long term. Yep, saving fucking loads with this manoeuvre.
Edit: Also of note; As things stand right now, we can’t afford to “go out”, we can’t afford to travel, we can’t afford “nice” food. We have no “life” as it stands, it’s not like we’re going to lose the Friday steak night or Saturday at the pub, those things went with my ability to work, a long time ago.
Edit 2: The only chance I have to dig myself out of this hole would be to find a way to turn a hobby into a business. The only problem with that is that hobbies cost money too.
I cite my own personal experience.
If I lose my PiP, my partner and I cannot afford to keep the roof over our head, food in the freezer, and the house warm.
The heating will be the first to go. We don’t run the heating downstairs as it is usually, to keep the costs down a chunk. That’s not going to help either of us physically or mentally, and it will damage the house, which we can’t afford to repair.
In order for me to re-enter the workforce, I would need retraining, as I can no longer work in the field I used to. In order to do that, I need to find the money to pay for college, to be able to go to university. University and the loans I would need would be partially based on my disability status. Great, except if I lose my PiP, even if only temporarily, I lose my funding and get booted from Uni.
All of that assumes that someone would even employ a fresh uni graduate who would be nearly 50 by that point.
You see, unless UKgov is actually going to properly rebuild the system (it’s not), I am stuck where I am and there is pretty much fuck all I can do about it.
Taking away the money that literally makes the ends meet isn’t going to miraculously heal me, train me and make me employable, is it?
What it will do is ensure we bleed out to the point of having to sell the house, and use the proceeds to pay off the mortgage. We’d end up with more money left over than you can have and claim UC, so we’d have to burn that to pay rent till it was gone, then claim UC and this time housing benefit too.
So yeah, great job. It’s going to ensure that we end up costing the state even more in the long term. Yep, saving fucking loads with this manoeuvre.
Edit: Also of note; As things stand right now, we can’t afford to “go out”, we can’t afford to travel, we can’t afford “nice” food. We have no “life” as it stands, it’s not like we’re going to lose the Friday steak night or Saturday at the pub, those things went with my ability to work, a long time ago.
Edit 2: The only chance I have to dig myself out of this hole would be to find a way to turn a hobby into a business. The only problem with that is that hobbies cost money too.