23rd October, 2021.
Right …
It’s officially the case that I got everything I needed to do, yesterday, done.
Bills? Paid.
Interview? Done: I even managed to ask relevant questions. Including ones about stools. The older I get, the more I appreciate being able to sit down on the job.
Pest controller? Visited: bang on the dot of 8:30. Seemingly, I’ve been visited by mice, at some point. And I got some better — presumably more lethal — bait/poison.
I need to get a new key for my rat trap though.
And I need to shop!
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Remember me telling you that the UK government had removed the twenty pound (£20) uplift to Universal Credit, the standard unemployment benefit in the UK … ?
That’s going to make life difficult for all of us: I could see that, yesterday, paying my bills.
Now … granted I’ve put in for the Warm Home Discount fuel companies make available to those of us on benefits. But I have no guarantee of when that will turn up.
But think the Government should have kept the uplift.
One thing I have noticed?
Is that the French Government has announced they will be paying about 38 million French citizens €100, this winter. That’s about eighty-four pounds (£84), roughly equivalent to the monthly uplift we got during the Pandemic.
Well played, President Macron.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be unveiling this year’s Autumn Budget, next Wednesday.
Will he do something similar?
I very much doubt it, somehow.
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