The 47-year-old was working at Amazon when his contract came to an end. He thought he would go back on Jobseeker’s Allowance.
But he had a nasty shock when he realised he was being put on Universal Credit and would have to wait six weeks before getting any cash.
“Coping with that was pretty hard going,” he said.
“I was borrowing off friends and family which was a bit awkward.”
Previously rent would be deducted automatically from housing benefit payments. It’s not under the new system.”
All that Socialism and you’re still broke?
Guess he has no “Emergency Fund”.
Why can’t he go get alms from the local mosque?
Poor Alex. So many excuses not to work.
When you die, your heirs don’t have to pay your debts, although they could, or maybe even should. A rise in suicide rates would be a terrible result of all this consumer debt.
The truth comes out in the story, perhaps. He’s addled on numerous legal prescription drugs to the point he can’t function. How he held down a job for any length of time might in fact be admirable.
The US has literally millions of people like this on disability. And then the heroin addicts who have discovered their own solutions outside the medical system, later on.
>> Universal Credit lies at the heart of our commitment to help people improve their lives and raise their incomes.
Schemes like this take the pressure off government to permit the free market economy it squanders. Ultimately, someone pays the price for the lack of productivity and the dignity that accompanies it.
The United Kingdom is a socialist shithole.
Didn’t they used to call them “Indentured Servants”?
It could be that those on Universal Credit in the U.K. are also bogged down in universal debt that always follows and never goes away. A few people in U.S. western states had a taste of it a few years ago, and it’s coming.