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Priestess
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- Feb 15, 2022
- 50
I've been on disability benefits on and off since getting cancer, having a stroke and becoming partially sighted. I say off and on because at reassessments they sometimes award me zero points and stop my payments, then I have to go through an appeal to get them reinstated. When this happens I end up living off an overdraft, and when I finally get my benefits reinstated with backpay, the backpay is never enough to pay off the debt due to overdraft charges. So I sink further into debt each time. Now my overdraft is totally maxxed out, I have literally no money, not even for food. The local food bank is shit, takes ages to get a referral and I can't eat most of the food they give due to food intolerances caused by my cancer treatment. I'm literally starving to the point that I was diagnosed with multiple vitamin deficiencies. Now I get vitamin tablets on the NHS, but I still have no money for food! How stupid is this world - they'll spend money on fake supplements for deficiencies caused by starvation but they won't give me any money for food!
And people blame me for my poverty "Just manage your money better," How can I manage zero income better, please tell me!
"Get a job/side hustle" - what kind of work do you think a partially sighted cancer patient who recently had a stroke can do?
And people blame me for my poverty "Just manage your money better," How can I manage zero income better, please tell me!
"Get a job/side hustle" - what kind of work do you think a partially sighted cancer patient who recently had a stroke can do?