My daughter is due to receive a miniscule increase in Tax Credits - we are talking pence not pounds but because the Tax Credits people believe eroneously that she was overpaid last year they are cutting her payment by £150 per month for the first two months. We have proof of this and have been trying to get them to sort it out for several months.
Today she received a letter from the council saying her housing benefit will be stopped because she failed to notify them of the Tax Credit increase (mind you they received details on the same date as my daughter did and that was the weekend). She has been told that to have the housing benefit reinstated she must supply bank statements and wage slips. This process could apparently take several weeks.
It would seem once again that because my daughter left her husband because he got another woman pregnant she is yet again being stabbed in the back. The only money my daughter will get is her small wage for the 16 hours work she does and the paltry sum she gets from her ex.
Apparently the Government, Tax Credits and the Council are quite happy to see my daughter and her two children homeless and hungry. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. And the letters they send make HER make her sound like a criminal.
I would like Ian D-S to try and survive on what they are expecting her to live on. This is not the first time the systems have made major cock-ups but we are now both pensioners and not able to take up the slack.
Can You Name 5 More Songs? (number 2)
Lack of public toilets in towns.
The King is to resume some duties.