The Universal Credit Crisis - BBC Panorama

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  @Val_kyriee · 7 years ago (edited)

  Wait. He goes for the appointment, the lady he's supposed to meet is on holiday. And then he is treated as having missed the appointment??? And sanctioned ??? In what world is that fair?? I live in Asia and even I know that is a load of bollocks.

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• AL

  @alexanderjones9572 · 7 years ago

  Man at 6.38 'I've even looked for somewhere to live, and I've found a bridge where I can live.' A bridge. At 63. What a sad situation

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• SP

  @spinaway · 6 years ago

  My Dad had a saying when we were Kids, he used to say , always pay your rent first then atleast you know you have a warm cave to forage from.

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• MY

  @myjulie60 · 7 years ago

  The rent should still be paid directly to the council or landlords; that was a stupid move by the government 🙄

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• EL

  @ElGibby · 7 years ago

  Make no mistake, the changes to the benefits system were never about ‘saving money’, ‘austerity’ or any of that nonsense. It was about deliberately attacking the most vulnerable in our society. Notice how no MP seemed to be in any way troubled by austerity cuts. Notice how none of the austerity measures involved closing tax loopholes for the richest individuals and companies. Notice how in the months and years leading up to the changes, there was a rash of TV programmes about people on benefits, specifically designed to make them look bad and like they were all scroungers, so everyone would just sit back and let the tories get away with what they’ve done. Given the number of deaths directly related to the benefit cuts, I’d venture to suggest that it’s a form of genocide.

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• AB

  @AbigailBrown-y4g · 1 year ago

  It's chaos . Vulnerable people are stressed out.

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• SO

  @soopersonic488 · 7 years ago

  I don’t understand why Anthony was sanctioned for missing an appointment when he did in fact show up?

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• LA

  @LauraM-kr9wv · 7 years ago (edited)

  When me and my partner lost our jobs, we were told by the job centre that their computer systems were struggling with universal credit claims and would often just stop working, and they had basically had the whole new system dumped on them with no training on how to actually work it. We were dutifully told that, well, there are food banks so at least you won't starve. Got a new job within a few weeks, thank God, because we could've been homeless and the system was in no way there to help.

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• MA

  @maxinechivers1312 · 6 years ago

  The government 5 years ago should have told people to have an emergency bank account. Income Support and Universal Credit have a savings limit of £6000. I feel very sorry to the man with £4000 rent problems. He is 63 years old and has worked all of his life. This system is horrible for everyone on it. Not all homeless families can get a home to live in!

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• CH

  @chrisconway8406 · 7 years ago

  I wish the tories would stop telling us that universal credit is working it is not working GET RID OFF IT.

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• MR

  @MrGoulden · 7 years ago

  Iain Duncan Smith should face jail for all the deaths UC has caused

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• JU

  @juliemathias8107 · 5 years ago

  Seeing the two older gentlemen looking so defeated so tired broke my heart, I would never have wished to see that look in my dads eyes, it really does seem just impossible for people to live with the rules that are ultimately made by people who have never been in those kind of situations

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