There is NOTHING Beneficial About “Benefits”….
And Calling it “Welfare” is one HELL of a Joke - because they care an absolute TOSS about your “Welfare”, and NONE of it Benefits You. Instead, it’s Shameful, Sickening, Humiliating, Debilitating... DEMEANING.
Now, for me and Lolli, it’s about to get worse.
GODS-DAMNING APE-SHITE... Mam brought the MAIL that came .... AND It was a SHITLOAD OF CRAP TOO MUCH BEFORE CHRISTMAS....
- PIP RE-APPLICATION FOR ME
- FREAKING GODS-DAMNED UNIVERSAL CREDIT MIGREATION LETTER FOR US BOTH - Due before Feb 2025
- MORE-THAN POLICY FOR BUDDY - Naturally his insurance is going WAY UP...
- STUPID ADVOCATE FOR FAMILY FOR LOLLI.... TOTALLY THE WRONG TIME OF YEAR FOR THIS...!!!!
{First - will have to get Advocate off Lolli's back till at least MARCH Next Year, give her some recovery breathing space without him closing her down immediately. WHY does EVERYONE want to Get Hold Of Us Before Yule/Christmas??!?!}
Joint First AND Second.... have to concentrate on getting PIP done before "22 December 2024" ... Except that is a FREAKING SUNDAY(!!!). Meaning I've got to make sure THEY GET IT BEFORE OR ON FRIDAY 20th December 2024.
They already took OVER A WEEK off me by sending the THICKSHITE Form SECOND CLASS and took A WEEK to get to me AFTER it got into the Royal Mail's system!! Sent it FRIDAY 22nd November. ASSHATS. Because I didn't get it till MONDAY 2nd DECEMBER, that obviously meant it MISSED the Friday post deadline and didn't even enter the postal system until the following MONDAY, FOUR DAYS LATER..(!!)
They should be sending it Track 24 to get it here ASAP. At LEAST "1st Class" - whatever that means, these days. But to miss TEN DAYS from their 1 month deadline is.. Abhorrent?? Reprehensible? It's Immoral, that's for sure.
THEREFORE... I HAVE TWO WEEKS MAXIMUM to write up the PIP Form.... !!????!!?! ... ANNNDDD I HAVE to send it EARLY, so they GET IT by or before December 20th - using Royal Mail TRACK 24**. Which Is NOT an Expense they should be putting on their recipients EVER(!!!) -- LEAST of all at Christmas Time.
... That mailing service cost me nearly £7** the last time... Sods only knows what the hell it's going to be NOW...?!
... **Bye Bye £10 "Christmas Bonus".... Not that it's worth much anyway. Want to say I can't believe it hasn't been updated since THE 1970s, when it was created... But that sounds about right, really, doesn't it?? According to an Inflation Calculater, £10 in 1972 was equivalent to more than £165 now. ---> That's DEFINITELY a Bonus for Christmas, would be A BIG MASSIVE HELP! They should have kept it in line with inflation, then people struggling would have been able to manage **SOMETHING** for themselves/Family at Christmas. .... Pathetically, Actual £10 of Now would have been giving them [just] 62p back then... There's a thought.
PIP PLAN: Will open up the WORD Document of the last one, re-save, add relevant changes, delete the original stuff and then that's that. And send the FND Packet (reformatted) as well.
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In the New Year... Can then look at the Universal Credit Migration thingy for both of us.
WHY IS ALL OF THIS SHITE AROUND CHRISTMAS?!?!?!
BY LAW the DWP shouldn't be allowed to do anything like this between 1st November Yr.X and 31st January Yr.XY ... It's IMMORAL, WRONG & DESPICABLY DESPARING.
It does NOT help how TERRIBLY VULNERABLE I FEEL... NOT strong or in control whatsoever.
The DWP are SO arrogant, self-important & full of themselves... Demanding. Demeaning. Disparaging.
Denouncing anyone who needs it and get it as "Lazy Scroungers who need to be forced into labour..." -- As if shit wasn't BAD ENOUGH ALREADY.
This New Move To Universal Credit PETRIFIES Me.
Universal Credit has been around about as long as I've been ill, and it was a shitshow from the beginning (my ex-best friend and roommate worked for them back then, was actually part of the Original Pilot Group for this "launch" including branding and ideas, and I got firsthand, horse's-mouth tales all about it as it went along its potholed journey). But I also thought there would be a public timeline for "onboarding" users during the HUGELY SLOW migration. Except there wasn't one, and I just got LANDED IN IT, same time as PIP asked for a re-hash and sodding Christmas 2024 came upon us.
Music by said friend inspired by working on the Universal Credit Branding>>>
Basically - well, I got better things to do. Like watch grass grow and paint dry.
.... Oh, and there's also that SMALL THING of GETTING BETTER & RECOVERING from the last TWO YEARS OF HELL. Which is going about as well as things this world are, right now.
But instead... HAVE TO KEEP ON STRUGGLING TO SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE... With Sodding Damned TSUNAMI WAVES coming crashing at me the other way.
Universal Credit has ALWAYS meant a WORLD OF PAIN to everyone transferring onto it AND ever afterwards:
- You have to be REASSESSED - Meaning a WORLD OF PAIN in having to DEAL WITH THAT .... On Top of the PIP one they just sent me(!!!!!!!!!)...
There'll be NO WAY I'll be able to manage to go TO an assesment this time, and someone will have to come here to the house. Or do it over the phone. Or Via Skype. ALL HORRIBLE.
- A HUGE PAY GAP between your last pay on the "Legacy" benefits, and Universal Credit - They stop it 2 weeks after you apply, BUT Takes FIVE WEEKS to freaking PROCESS...??!!
- There's usually reported LESS Money being given than before
- it's paid "Every Four Weeks" like PIP - meaning you get paid RANDOMLY once a month... NOTHING like actual salaried pay, which is on the same date every single month, but they say the idea is to emulate it... Which is RIDICULOUS because you can't set up reliable direct debits and standing orders on "you'll get it on dandom dates".
- EVERYTHING is done ONLINE - which is kinda good, but only IF you're able to CONNECT... Including any server issues they get, or people actually READING your stupid "Notebook" on there. Granted, it's better than having to call people AND it's all in writing.... But I hardly TRUST ANYONE to actually READ it. My friend worked for these people - I got it from the horse's mouth how these places are run and the people they're run by, and the staff involved....
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