31st August, 2021.
Yes … it’s raining.
In the immortal words of Janet Weiss.
So … ? Well, I’ve got to go to town, to put in for a new sick note, and a little shopping.
I’m going to get wet …
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I’ve been out of work, now, since 2018: and it can drag.
Especially when you consider the amount we, as benefit claimants, are paid.
What’s help, over the past few months? Is the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit the government introduced in 2020.
It’s a godsend.
One that’s due to end on 30th September, 2021.
Understandably, people are upset.
Me, included.
One thing I’m grateful to see?
Was a piece of news I saw yesterday.
It seems the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all appealed to Westminster — the UK’s central government — to either extend the uplift, again: or make it permanent.
Good for them.
I doubt — right now — that it would work.
After all, the Prime Minister says he wants to concentrate on people having — or getting — paid work.
But, given those better paid jobs aren’t coming my way?
I hope the appeal works.
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