Things that are slipping quietly in whilst the press focus on the Russian poisoning

trouble!!! Not double!

The trouble with universal credit is that families can move in and out of it very quickly.
Once they lose their UC, they have to reapply. That's when they go down to the £7400 limit.
Of course, the government wouldn't tell you that.

More bad news.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/near-21m-hotel-bill-for-grenfell-survivors-and-evacuees/

www.independent.co.uk/voices/dwp-esa-pip-disability-sickness-payment-underpaid-iain-duncan-smith-a8266721.html

Some disabled people have lost out on £20,000.

I watched a thing about a family on basic wage last night and they said sometimes they didn't qualify for any help because of the way Universal Credit was calculated and husband's wages were taken as twice or something one month. Does anyone understand how the whole thing works?

I saw that trisher and no it didn’t make any sense

So pleased it wasn't just me! I'd been child minding and thought maybe my brain was just exhausted and there was some reasonable explanation.

It's to do with whether five weeks in the month rather than four. To do with which day you are paid, so sometimes there are five Fridays instead of four.
Then you have to reapply for universal credit the next month or week.
That can also cause problems for free school meals in the new system.
They've known about it for ages, but done nothing about it.

Here's something else that wasn't on the news, I don't think, or thought not to be important enough.

www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/20/british-banks-handled-vast-sums-of-laundered-russian-money&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwj4ypvm9YXaAhUBxKYKHai7DY8QFggLMAI&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=007466294097402385199:m2ealvuxh1i&usg=AOvVaw1yo3Kge-ZAxqpfce1svXhu

www.theguardian.com/world/series/global-laundromat

A Danish bank closed down Russian accounts when they found out in 2013.
Why haven't we?

Watching Victoria Derbyshire discussing the cuts in widowed parents benefits. They used to be entitled to money until the youngest child was 18 or left full time education. Now they get 18 months and less money per week.

Nasty text she read out. "No wonder our welfare system is in a mess."
Heartless person.
He's right about no getting back to normal as well.
Six months after my husband died my next door neighbour, who hadn't spoken to me for six months, asked me if I was getting used to my new lifestyle.
After my response, he has avoided me even more.

Will McVey be open to listening? What?

This is interesting. I hadn't realised Neill's other job was chairman of the Telegraph group. Explains a lot.

"Credit where credit’s due: despite being the Chairman of the group that owns two major pro-Tory publications – The Telegraph and The Spectator – the BBC’s Daily Politics host Andrew Neil is never afraid to hold both sides of the argument to account with forensic and sometimes painfully persistent questioning. And Neil’s interrogation of an increasingly flustered Tory MP over her party’s systematic, and blatantly obvious underfunding of the NHS on today’s Daily Politics was a joy to behold.

Today’s unfortunate Tory MP to be thrown to the wolves was Claire Perry, the MP for Devizes – and it’s safe to say her limp refutations to Neil’s probing questions on the Tores’ management of the NHS certainly won’t have given viewers any more reasons whatsoever to trust the Tories’ with our health service."

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/28/senior-tory-mps-accused-of-accepting-money-from-former-soviet-states

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/28/may-considers-banning-city-of-london-from-selling-russian-debt

Kind of her to give them lots of notice and announce it in the MSM.

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/31/national-minimum-wage-rise-still-fails-to-cover-living-costs-study-show

Minimum wage going up by 33p an hour. I wonder who worked out that that was sufficient to keep poor people in their place.

And Theresa May fails to answer an MPs question about cutting free school meals and subsidising MPs catering facilities evolvepolitics.com/watch-labour-mp-asks-why-tories-cut-subsidised-food-for-poor-kids-but-not-for-mps-theresa-mays-response-is-shocking-video/

"And she talks about changes that are happening next week. Yes, we will actually see pensioners getting a boost to their pension next week, families, 31 million taxpayers will get an income tax cut and two million people living on the national living wage will get a pay rise. That’s Conservatives delivering for everyone."

May's response. She's proud that there are two million people living on the national living wage. Only those over 25 live on that; those under 25 still get the minimum wage.

What pay rise are MPs getting after tomorrow?

She just lies all the time now Nasty Woman (T. May).

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2018/03/31/income-inequality-in-the-uk-looks-to-be-getting-worse-and-we-were-already-doing-badly/

Something else not on the radar that should be.