6th January, 2019.
Thank GOD for that!
I posted the letter!
JUST so you know … ?
I’ve put in for a provisional driving license: to use as ID for job interviews.
Except of course, me being me? I forgot to sign the bloody form, before I originally sent it off.
Which got sent back to me, on Friday, and reposted, yesterday …
Oy …
Veh … !
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I have to admit, this piece floated across my timeline, this morning: catching my attention with it.
The piece tells us that Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, is to delay a vote putting more people onto Universal Credit — the benefit I’m on — for an unspecified amount of time.
Personally?
I’m … mostly grateful to hear that.
I’m very aware — having been receiving it for a few years, now — that it’s means tested …
But also paid monthly.
For those of us, like me, used to being paid weekly, the monthly paid Universal Credit is awkward to juggle.
Having had a quick look at Jobseeker’s Allowance, the benefit I would have been on, had I not been shifted to UC?
I’m about ten to twenty pounds worse off a month.
And the Housing Benefit component is paid directly to me: rather than directly to my landlords, as had previously been the case.
NOT something I’m comfortable with.
And yes: I’ve a few arrears that need paying.
The initial delay I faced, in receiving it, when I left the Brentwood branch of KFC? Didn’t help.
So, seeing the delay is in place?
Is interesting.
But I can’t help think that improvements need doing …
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