It is a ludicrous system. I have just read on another thread, how browsing in a dept. store can result in items looked at being flagged up on your phone and yet it takes 6 weeks or more to deliver benefits that are essential.
My son has addiction problems and has come home to recover, he has had no benefits ever, always worked, even when very ill last year his tax bill was £8000. Yet I am left to pay the costs of his medications and trips to the chemist daily for it and everything else. Just our bad luck we are told, that we live in rural area and his fares to the chemist would be more than he would receive (he is very ill and not well enough for transport or cycle) and so in built in everything in the potential for failure.
It was £40 in taxi to job centre and plenty of other taxis fares have had to be paid, out of my pension.
I do not begrudge him a penny, and acknowledge that his problem is by and large self inflicted, but do we want people to recover or not??????
You have to have a decent level of resources to claim anything now. How is that assumption arrived at?