‘Terrified’ disabled woman on PIP forced to live on three Pot Noodles a week

25 comments

1. Weird to be paying insurance on a laptop rather than eating more.

2. i wonder how many fags she smokes a day?

3. Which flavour though? Bombay bad boy baby

4. “She typically uses her monthly PIP to cover her £40 phone bill, insurance for her phone and laptop, and bedroom tax.”

   This was the point when the sympathy train left the station.

5. I knew which paper would be running this story before I even clicked on it!

6. So she’s living on 1200 calories a week? Bullshit!

7. Thats not an illness that prevents you working.

8. I see the exploitation and demonization of the less fortunate is in full swing. I’m pretty sure she’s talking nonsense and was paid by some right-wing media outlet to say this. Like many others, she is most likely not well-educated and may have some undiagnosed developmental issues, much like those who ended up on ‘Jeremy Kyle’ or ‘Benefit Street.’

9. It makes no sense someone living of this type of benefit having to pay for bus fares.

10. I’m sure someone will answer, but if she can volunteer for the NHS, can she not manage some paid work?

11. These stories are not believable.

12. can get an easy phone contract with lebarra, for instance, for a tenner a month. Laptop insurance? Really? Get rid of that. You’ll be able to eat more, at least. But, yes, Labour are continuing their war on the poor whilst propping up immigrants in hotels. Sad times.

13. For everyone going on about what she spends it on, and how there’s nothing stopping her working – people who really do need to be on benefits and feel incredibly guilty and ashamed are reading this as well. And it’s making them feel like shit meanwhile people who genuinely cheat the system don’t care what you say.

    Maybe you need to go and hear about what wealthy tax dodgers spend the money they owe the government on… nothing, it just sits in an offshore bank account gathering dust.

14. If you can’t live on pip when you are getting your rent paid etc it’s a you problem. Learn how to spend your money

15. I’m disabled too and I can see her priorities are not priorities.

    £40 a month for phone insurance is NOT more important than food.

16. Rubbish.

17. Probably smokes, spends her money on a £40 bill for her phone a month lol wtf

18. Who in their right mind would reveal all the expenses that she has? The media is out to target people and it seems to be working. These headlines at this point don’t even sound believable.

19. Her story doesn’t add up. Pip isn’t meant to cover food or rent, that’s what UC is for. If she’s splashing out on laptop insurance rather than food, maybe she should reconsider her priorities

20. I do get that there in an implied need for a phone / internet connection to claim benefits these days. And that should be factored into payments, but £40?? Come on!!

    I can get £5 a month deals for calls text and data, and £100 android clones do a sterling job. And who pays for fucking laptop insurance???

21. Wonder if she drinks or smokes

22. I have 0 sympathy for people like that. I know people in the exact same situation and you know what they do when they can’t afford bus fair, they walk, and I’m talking about a different women in her 50s with ocpd.

    And I’m calling bullshit on her wanting to work.

    Life is hard, and for some it’s harder than it is for others. Get used to it because that fact will never change.

23. She should get a free bus pass.

    And advice on better financial choices cause you don’t need to spend £40 on a phone each month and you don’t need phone or laptop insurance either.

    Also I hope someone has helped her get into that house swapping to escape the bedroom tax.

    I hope she’s able to get into work soon.

24. Firstly after reading some of these comments,that none of you end up in the same situation..
    And it can happen so don’t think it won’t or can’t happen to you .
    I used to think like that also ,until one day I went to work and by 10am I was being airlifted to hospital paralysed ..
    Then later you will get a reality shock trust me , it’s opened my eyes to so many things .
    I worked my ass off 6 days a week , paid into the system and I know not only feel guilty for having to claim benefits and same for not being fit enough to work due to effects of the damage done to my spinal cord .

    So what should qualify as disabled ?
    I get the system is abused severely and need a shake up ..

    I’m living on half the amount I did when I was working , how is that fair ?

    Just feel so many criticisms without knowing what it’s like 😩

25. I smell bullshit, only £600 on UC when she has rent. You get £400 as a standard allowance, so you’re telling me she only pays £200 in rent? Also has bedroom tax because she lives in a property that she doesn’t need, so either living in a place with way too many bedrooms, or her rent is dirt cheap. No LCWRA so she must be able to do something. Start by not paying insurance on your phone and laptop, and stop buying pot noodles when you can just buy noodles or pasta for the same price and get far more out of it.

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