ITV National News running a story about bailiffs and council tax collections. Tonight at 7pm (unless moved for other news stories). Ames Taylor Michael AD organiser Pennysmart CIC FfionPearl ☘️🇮🇪 Unite Debt Advice Network Sylvia Simpson Saleem Russell Bhoy Leeds & West Yorkshire Debt Advice Network Debt Camel Debt Justice

If you’ve time for a quick mindful debt adviser poem today, you could try this 👇

2 things have gone since I wrote it a year ago.

1. DRO fees 😃
2. My dog 😢

But the rest stands the test of time I think

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Carer's allowance overpayment scandal latest: Labour calls for urgent investigation as cross-party anger grows over brutal penalties imposed on unpaid carers for minor benefit rule breaches theguardian.com/society/2024/a… by Josh Halliday Eleni Courea me and Aletha Adu

You should definitely expect serious, impartial debt advice from these people. Definitely. No profiteering from misery going on here.

Forget MaPS standards, forget Financial Conduct Authority & CONC 8, do get debt advice via your nearest & sincerest professional TikTok influencer.
Insolvency Service

The Guardian should speak to Ealing Law Centre and Lawstop about the Ealing residents who are being prosecuted by Ealing Council for falling into arrears with home care charges. Some of them now owe £20,000 and face County Court Judgements. Care debt is destroying lives.

The craziest thing about how the DWP pursued George is that he now costs the state £1,000 a month *more* than when he was claiming carers' allowance. After being prosecuted, he lost his home and became too mentally ill to work, so now lives in social housing on Universal Credit.

Ames Taylor Is this going to be the watershed moment for carers allowance, do you think?

There have been so many pieces written about it, we can only hope things will finally change.

Completely agree. PIP/DLA isn’t linked to earnings/income. Carers Allowance shouldn’t be either.
If you are a carer, you should get an ‘allowance’ (and a decent one at that) and if you have opportunities to work that you want to take up, you shouldn’t be penalised for it.

Next week Erik Porter, Chair of Rooted Finance, will decide whether to reinstate the unfairly fired 83% of frontline staff at his charity.

Today we visited his employer, Wagestream.

His boss agreed to set up a meeting with him and the union to ensure he does the right thing.

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Lordship v hardship
Bankroll v bankrupt
And when it all gets too much
They say ‘oh there they are, skiving with their mild anxiety
Gettin a sick note from the GP’

Another mine in the minefield

Ames Taylor Iain Duncan Smith MP Mel Stride 100% correct. It is an abusive situation created by the state / Tories.

Carers will pick whichever one gives them more freedom, less abuse, less control by DWP, less precarity, if that means LCWRA/PIP rather than Carers, then they will go for it.

Surely Mel et al can see that?

Have a great day! part 3/2

If only we all had ‘mountains of cash’ to take away the most basic fear of not being able to pay the bills.

But apparently we are best served by maintaining have/have nots, lairds/serfs etc

And the haves go on telly to complain about the have nots.

Have a great day! Part 2/2

Have a great day! part 1/2

What happens with carers if you don't end the cliff edge and stop the punishment, is they will swap to LCWRA, cost the state more.

Carers are all broken by the toll that caring takes. They could and should be on LCWRA as well, but as you can't have both, people opt for carers --

Press: Tesco profits: Company raking in “mountains of cash” while families struggle

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Tesco is raking in huge profits while families struggle to put food on the table.

There is an epidemic of profiteering in our economy and the government has abjectly failed to curb it.

If someone - recently signed up to an IVA - is applying for crisis support today because they can’t afford food…I’m thinking that is yet another mis-sold IVA.

TikTok & other sites full of predators preying on people in debt. When will it end Financial Conduct Authority ?