Martin Lewis is excellent - it is because of his show on the 22nd November last year when he had a great chap called Lee Healey speaking about benefits, I finally after 5 months with Lee's help, got the DWP to pay me correctly. As a result of the DWP's incompetence I was refused the Funeral Expenses Payment with which to have a funeral for my daughter.
Because I couldn't, her estranged father (who has whinged for years in virtually every text he ever sent to me and his daughters, that he was in his 40th year of working full time time, mostly as a 40% tax payer (a dig at me for being unable to work) and hadn't even seen her for over 2 years) had to pay for it, and boy did he make me suffer for it .... 'It isn't a wedding/jamboree, we can't afford to do this (his wife owns the leasehold on 180,000 properties, and they have 6 cars between them) I will reclaim it from her estate etc ... my daughter and my other daughter and I actually howled laughing when we went to close her bank account, as it had £16.52 in it!!
So because of Martin, and Lee, I am now being paid correctly (after 5 phone calls to the DWP and them ignoring me, and some were very rude) although I still can't afford heating etc but I do have more than £31.88 for food each week!
It is 6 months today that she died, it is not a good day ....