Hi all So i have been researching UC & been in forums of the flawed system. I want to prepare you all if your migration from ESA TO UC. Your housing benefit will be paid for 2 weeks but the 5 week wait means your get rent arrears, aswell as an advance loan you have…

Hi all Tis the weekend, as much as ye think my noggin has shifted of this UC countdown. Its hard, i keep thinking of scenario’s with the DWP & Work Coach. Like a wee pick n mix , if im gonna get a good one or one thats an ableist arsehole and uncaring. The horror…

Hi all Well today i am 4 years 11 months sober, glad i made it. With all the shit going on at the moment. Mums cancer diagnosis last year & her pre op this year, happy she fought the fucker. And now awaiting on her lung results next Thursday Sobriety front, with the dwp bollix,…

Hi all On the news of mum and her big c, she comes home this afternoon. I am really proud of mum, being a wee warrior and fighting her pre op of the big risk they said she have, not the breast removal but the lymph nodes all removed, and they thinking it turn into…

Hi all Some good news at least, about mother, she had her pre op for her cancer, and they removed all the cancer even though it spread to her lymph nodes, they removed that too. Mum is a true fighter and proved the surgeon wrong, even though they said she was high risk and fatel.…

Hi all Its the day of mums pre op, i am feeling hopeful that mother will be ok, she is at risk due to her other health aliments, ie when having her lymph nodes removed all of them. She might get lymphoma. Her pre op is at 13:00, so i be in the hospital till…

Hi all Well i am still struggling with this suicide ideation & alcohol, i won’t lie its bloody hard. I can’t cope with stress and having ptsd its a double whammy of a shitshow. Im trying my best to battle both sucide ideation & temptation of alcohol. Ye really think i want either to happen…

Hi all Im feeling somewhat better but the inner dread of UC day is weighing on me. My mums bf came down yesterday, and we all had a chinese and watched tele. So that was nice not to be sitting in me flat on me ones. Other things on me noggin, mums cancer and awaiting…

Hi all The constant stress & confusion of UC is sending me in a frenzy. Its not explained properly and hard to figure out. With the rent from HB to HE, this 52 weeks thing & rent free weeks, my brain hurts & being autistic i can’t process it or make sense of it all.…

Hi all Where to start than ? So went down my local authority got me rent statement for the whole year printed off. ( took 20 mins to wait & be seen) Got back in touch with the women at CAB. Sent her said statements. She recalculated it all. Standard allowance Housing element LCWRA Transitional…