"They tell me to live on the streets" - universal Credit "isn't working"
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Rent arrears, evictions and food bank use on the up. As part of our #Line18 series, Sky's Tom Rayner looks into why #UniversalCredit isn't working.
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UK government should be shut down.... All MPs stuck on universal credit for a week and watch them cry. No politician is fit to serve.... Complete waste
steve brinda why a week try the full term of uc
Ain't gonna happen though. Not while I'm alright Jack and my heating's on, my bills are paid, the next boxset's starting and my new elephant skin sofa's just come in. Nope, don't think I'll be rebelling on behalf of the plebeian poor; I'll just blot out the memory of the starving disabled woman taking her last few breaths in a rusted wheelchair.
Riots come, parliament gets blown up, then the Chinese invade ten minutes later to fill the power vacuum. Maybe even one of the many radical political groups will take over the entire country and start lopping heads off until everyone agrees with them.
So the House of unelected Lords that get paid just to turn up, many asleep or senile are okay then?
A week isn't long enough for them to even begin to comprehend, Steve... they need at least six months suffering the same fate as the least fortunate amongst our society, and even that period wouldn't really relay the hopelessness of those who will spend the rest of their lives below the bottom rung of the proverbial ladder. After all, most people could readily survive quite intact, both physically and mentally, knowing that after a mere week or even six months they'll return to their former position of debt free comfort and affluence.
And yet we have enough money to throw at the ''Royal Wedding''. SICK!
Odille1989 to be fair that does make Britain way more than it costs from tourism and everything related.
Odille1989 i 100% agree. This is a system that only grinds down people further. The goverment has the money but wont spend it on its own people.
The royal family are the biggest benefit scrounges.
Kopuz yep. The rich get richer....and so on.
Venom Carnage yeah, i dont mind my taxes going to immigration cos at least that serves some purpose. I hate greedy inbred no gooders geting my taxes.
The 19-year-old broke my heart. What kind of country offers no help or shelter for this poor young lad?
The 19 year old has the option to serve his country in uniform. It's been the way out of poverty for generations before
The same one that can feed and house tens of thousands of Albanian migrants.
He can claim benefits by simply putting the address of a job centre or hostel etc or get one of the 1,000,000 job vacancies.
the same one that helps foreigner's straight off a rubber boat there's something wrong with our goverment.
Send all the boat people home and look after vulnerable britons
In 2020 first time in my life i had to sign up for Universal credit. Ive been paying NI since i was 16 and working from 13. The lady at the job centre gave me a dirty look soon as i met her. I told her it is my first time and then she grilled me for being there. I was there because i was loosing my job and was not able to pay rent. Made to feel like a begger to claim my own dam right for help after paying years of Tax through the nose.
Did the same with me and put me on ridiculous courses that were made for mentally slow people, what a waste of tax payers money, yet the people at the job centre that never worked a day in their lives get everything
losing*
Similar happened to me. They also got me to literally do free work for a restaurant for 2 weeks as a chef (I had worked as a chef for 3 years prior) To think how many other establishments got free labour for months while the government paid a decade ago.
Look m8 I am 68 my wife had cancer mild stroke blood clots arthritis bad in left hand asked why can I not get a job come Sun if my wife don't get anything I will go back to work I retired haha at 65 don't get nothing for my wife I don't beg to no one pick my kit up and sort it m8
Those who cheat the system will be fine. Those who truly need it suffer.
Theres a very big differance in cheating the system and surviving the system
100%
I have kidney failure,aggressive lupus and epilepsy and I had to fight to even receive middle rate universal credit it’s a joke that theirs people out there that don’t need to be on Benefits but chose to be because it’s more convenient for them.
Exactly bang on👌🇬🇧🏴🤬
People that suffer under system usually cheat thr system. I think we think we know the system so much. No we dont, not tthose people we dont
5 weeks without payment is a bloody joke, especially for the elderly. This is either poor design, or deliberately poor design on the governments part.
its two months in Germany
5 weeks that’s a lie people been waiting over 6 months selling the clothes of there backs for a loaf of bread
Yes it doesn’t make sense it’s a disgusting descision I live here in Ireland and when u claim for any type of payment u get it in the first week they come to your house and see u and hand u a cheque until your claim has come through people should take a look at how Ireland’s system works they Realy see what people need not like Britain they would leave u to rot if they could
@Ashok Hegde, a lot of the working poor do not have extra money to put aside for a rainy day. Every day is a rainy day for them. Some people can put away a little each month, but I know two people who have no cash by the end of the month. They both pay all their bills and buy groceries. Both prepare meals that will last a several days like casseroles, stews, meat loaf, rice and pasta dishes. They usually only have coins toward the latter part of the month.
But yet we have money for refugees and to give to Europe ... Should put are own first ... This what are grandparents fought in the war for .. They would be turning in there graves .. English people second class people in are own country
Thanks for keeping your comment section open!! I hate when NEWS stations shut it down, as if viewer opinion doesn't matter.
I'm a 55 year old man and I'm in tears at this. Unbelievable that this is happening right now in Britain. All while the government make sure they're ok, seriously we'll paid, and living lives of wealth and luxury. Absolutely shameful.
welcome to late stage capitalism
It's got no better in the time since. I've been in work for the last 5 years but needing UC to top up what I needed because it was zero hour contract. In April I got a letter from UC falsely stating I had been overpaid by £340. I had everything to prove that it wasn't the case, tried to phone them, tried to email them and got told to leave a message in an online journal. So I did that- they ignored it for 2 weeks. I needed help to get photo ID for a job opportunity- the job had been offered to me but photo ID was a necessity of the job because it was at an airport and they denied me a grant or short term loan of £70 because "it wouldn't assist in getting a job" even though they were made fully aware that having it would guarantee me full time work. I wasnt allowed to see someone in person about the money I was supposed over paid, and on Monday when I was finally able to I brought it up and they said I had to have challenged it within a month of getting the letter. Which I did only for them to ignore me. I'm resigned to starving to death now. But for them that will just be another person no longer in poverty, it will be seen as a positive.
Dry your eyes
And yet people voted Tories in 2019. And before that. They should be ashamed
@@rogueuniversities6866 I am not so convinced, Labour would change this. They talk the talk when in opposition, but have an abysmal record when in power ….and no, I don’t support either. This so called democracy isn’t working too well, so voting for another party …same thing, different wrapper .
The people who run our country have absolutely no idea what is like to be in a desperate situation as they've led privileged sheltered lives. To be honest I don't think they care as long as they're ok. These elitists need replacing with regular working class people who actually have real life experience. My heart bleeds for that young lad. So so sad. I hope he's safe.
He will have to go home 🏡
been saying this for years
communism slowly might creep in this way
Indians run britain now
Apparently, that young lad kept blowing the rent money... So ye, it's not the best of system idea's is it, especially for the repeat offenders/vulnerables < however you wish to label him/them - maybe the best option is to land yourself in prison for survival. What a sad state of affairs eh - it's like: he has been born into hell (he didn't ask to be born) our PM is the devil, and his cohorts (in all departments) are his disciples.
It's designed to not work for claiments that's the entire point.
Well said ,Alex Bowman,was thinking that myself.
Exactly!👏
I was in the same situation as that 19 year old but when I was 17, I was left completely on my own and asked for details they knew I couldn't provide. I still have no ID as there is no way of getting one without one, this government is utterly useless and full of people that should be comedians not politicians.
Even comedians would have insight on these issues, politicians just don't care
They should be locked up not given a more favourable place in the tacky little world of attention seeking twats
I think it’s disgusting that the prime Minister can have wallpaper that cost more then £800 per roll for his house but he is making people starve and go homeless. Yes there are some that are being irresponsible with it but there are a lot more people that just can’t manage and that are finding it very hard
Hi. In the 1980s it took 10 days to get unemployment entitlement. So now we have computers why does it take 5 weeks somebody needs to go to gaol - this is not right. Thanks
Barry Soetoro Hi. That's ok if someone has just left a job. Some people have different circumstances and the government should have more than one model. We're all different and gov's purpose is to protect people and property. I cannot see how that young lad is being protected in this system. Thanks
They say 5 weeks but people are waiting longer due to incompetence on DWP end.
the cuts are going to make 1 million under 25's homeless. It's designed that way I think. They lie about it and say oh it helps people into work, it helps then claim money more easily, of course is not true. Also I mean anyone who has drug addiction or alchohol or gambling addiction will as they are given the rent money, end up homeless, because they will feed addiction, they think short term. certain degree it is deliberate. And Theresa May will not see any of social problems she creates because there is no social housing in chipping norton.
EVERY STEP IS PLANNED INCLUDING THE SO CALLED MISTAKES AND LEARNING CURVE=PLANNED EXPERIMENT ON THE DISABLED =TARGETED=MILITARY STYLE CAMPAIGN =IAN DUNCAN SMITH=THE SHAME OF Britain.
Michael realises that we don’t need money to survive - we need each other, in cooperation and collaboration to create prosperity and abundance. He states that “MONEY DOES NOTHING - PEOPLE DO EVERYTHING”. Money is the tool of control that prevents people from achieving their goals and applying their talents for the benefit of the community. Bankers decide what we can and cannot do, by withholding funds from people and not granting loans - because according to them, our plans are often NOT FINANCIALLY VIABLE. Michael creates a new word called Contributionism - a system in which money does not exist - and people contribute their talents and skills for the benefit of everyone in the community, without any barter, trade, exchange, or value attached to anything - where all our contributions must be seen as equally valuable. CONTRIBUTIONISM becomes the first -ism in history that does not use money or any form of trade or exchange - to create unimaginable prosperity and abundance for the entire community.
It feels like society is about to collapse something big is coming anyone else feel that
Barry Soetoro yh definitely we are in the final stages
THE MARTYR it's not coming it's already here , they are culling the poor and weak killing them off first , hundreds of thousands have died already the sick the old , death have gone up with people who have learning difficultys and disability. And more single pregnant women are having abortions although that is more of a choice!
It's always been this bad. Just in the past the labor government borrowed more money to band-aid the problem. The current government is doing something about the problem. They arn't doing it just to be mean, there simply are not the resources available for members of society who cannot contribute to it.
Brother those in the "know" can feel it so intuitively
Yes and the early stages are already happening. The old are being culled, hence an unaccounted-for increase in deaths last winter. This year, the old are getting a 'special vaccine', probably full of poisons. Everyone is in debts, yet carry on spending money like it has gone out of fashion and the government keeps bringing asylum seekers and other layabouts into our country to cause trouble.
The plight of that young lad was heartbreaking, hope he's managed to get back on his feet.
This was me a few years ago, left camping in the woods, I'll never ever forget those cold wet nights and the resentment I developed for the government, my heart breaks for anyone on universal credit what a sham its all been
same here was on 70£ a week from Carrers allowance til a breakdown then homeless for 2years i got alot of help i really needed this i was on the end of my tether it would have ended very badly if i didnt get help
how did people thrive in the pas tin the woods? like the germanic tribes, the brits before/during roman era?
Not acceptable 😒
@@honeybunch6473 it's so sad, I think the system is broken and needs a total revamp
@@incorectulpolitic Yes communities with families or in armies who knew how to build shelter to survive the conditions through adaptation to their environment. Not single individuals turfed out of centrally heated homes into tents. Use your brain.
The real criminals are in suits and ties.
Double faced Europeans ( Gog Magog ) have DESTROYED this NATION
Vythzia Yes - Tie fighters.
Always been that way.
K
Barney from how I met your mother?
Heartbreaking, the young lad on the street upset me the most. How can a country fail the young so bad?
Same. And in the US, where I'm from, the promise is 10x worse.
*the problem
Richard Baron i don’t feel sorry for him cause he’s smoking
@@deez6296 he proberly picks butt's up of the floor I hope nothing like this happens to u
@@keelyjohnston19 why would it happen to me?
No ID and now he can’t even vote out the people who put him in this mess.
Uc is failing so bad myself am now having to temporarily live with my dad I'm 35 and back at home after dwp have taken deductions off me I'm left with £242 a month I still have to pay my dad 70 pounds rent then I buy my own food essentials and toiletries then jobcentre want me in for appointments every week I live 13 miles from. Town they wont reduce deductions and refuse to reimburse my travel expenses its come to the point where I shut myself away for days on end because I cant cope living like this my depression and anxiety has gone to another level now WHY WONT THE SYSETEM LISTEN AND ACT BEFORE THEY CLAIM ANOTHER LIFE
75% of Universal Credit-dependent tenants in arrears. 120,000 starved to death by 2017 since roll-out of UC. Countless hundreds of thousands of disabled unjustly deemed fit for work. But hey, I'm alright Jack. I'll just turn the telly up so I can't hear the neighbour crying because she can't pay the bills.
It just breaks your heart.
120,000 be no way
120,000 starved to death what crap
I'm alright jack keep your hands off my stack. Pink Floyd.
They are implementing these changes to encourage people to work but what about the people who can't work, how are they expected to survive 5 weeks without money.
Sue F moreover enough jobs have to be created and people from vulnerable sectors must have access and information of the jobs. I saw in Canada, GP Sergey and hospitals even provide information about the available jobs to people according to their condition and circumstances. Their job centers call people regularly and email them about available jobs and benefits if they entitled to and help them to prepare CV and chase application process I know one person in there who faced domestic violance, the police and social service protected the victim and family within 24 hours and found a voluntary job and benefit for her by 48 hours. Here system us failing miserably. They are constantly creating us and them of negative environment while snatching locals jobs and destroy g local small business and communities at the bottom.
pure laziness and a lack of innovation
Rekash Sinanin Who exactly is lazy, your reply s not very clear.
I grew up in the streets with no education, at the age of 11 I had to provide for my family. If a person is living in a country with first world benefits i find no excuse to be homeless unless it is their personal choice
Rekash Sinanin how about people who work but don't have savings and then fall ill and benefits don't cover their housing? I've found myself in this situation for 5 months until I could return to work. I was incredibly lucky that family helped me. Others arent.
I once knew an amazing human being who helped Ryan after seeing this news show. They helped him find accommodation and look for work and gave him breathing space. They even paid for him to do things like go to gym and make friends. I hope Ryan is doing ok these days and I hope the person who reached out to help Ryan is well.
aw that’s great he was worrying me bless him
That's really good to hear.
So glad to hear this.
My sister beat 4 rounds of cancer, the consequences on her body as a result was very significant. She always said that it wasn't the cancer that would kill her, but this awful Universal Credit System. Prior to her cancer she worked, from managerial positions to working as a teaching assistant. But, she found the system very difficult to manage in her time of need. She took her own life recently as a result of the struggles she endured on Universal Credit. She was only 43. Prior to her ending her life she sold all her belongings including jewelry to try to get by. She was a very proud woman, but felt the injustice by "the system". Facing sanctions for being too ill to attend some appointments. She took her own life as a result of how cruel this system is. We did all we could to support her, but she was a very proud woman and didn't want to take anything from others. The consequences of UC are brutal. My sisters name was **Susan Kingston**.
Rip Susan.
God rest her soul I'm so sorry this happened, keep telling her story.
Universal credit doesn’t help people back into work. It forces people into a job that doesn’t cover the bills, as I’ve stated many times universal credit =debt, suicide, homelessness
As a father I can not believe this young man lives in street in Britain. What a shame...
There was no information as to why he came to live on the streets or verification that he was. He may simply have made wrong choices in life and not taken help that was available to him.
@@pizzaboy3946 I’m autistic, can’t work in social situations, struggling to grow my business because I can’t even answer the phone. I get by on UC but barely, when my mum dies. That’s likely going to be me and if I didn’t have a mother would already be me. don’t judge people, sometimes they can’t help it
@@pizzaboy3946 he clearly said how people do not get back to him and he cannot access resources such as even printing a cv.
@@coreycollins6917 Man I feel this as an autistic person myself I’ve been sacked from countless jobs for being “too slow” just after a few months of working I get burned out
Meanwhile Prince Charles and offspring receive huge quantities of social benefit with no means testing or declaration they have been looking for work.
This is shameful in a rich country like ours, it’s always the most vulnerable that suffer
Its true, I lost my job a few months ago, went on UC and was 5 weeks before I got my first payment, so staraight away I was one month behind on my rent. I've now got a job. 16 hrs a week until the holiday season starts. I've managed to get my arrears almost back on track at the loss of paying my council tax. Now I'm in arrears and had the baliffs round a few times. I'm grateful for the food banks and the help of friends. Without that I would have had no chance. I can't describe the feeling of hopelesness I felt and still feel now I'm working. I relate.
@@bunyann90 Imagine reading his story and replying with that...
Stop. Iieing bYlift don't knock u doores 4li.l rent
resell items is legit......selling stuff is legal...
What a barbaric society we have become.
it will get worst when the IMF breaks ----- I say it will be around 2029 ----------- this is because too much money owed to the world and heavy interest rate vs those employed against the dollar I think ------ I honestly don't know that part --- but I know a bit ---------------- be ready ------------------- don't sleep walk into bigger danger due to come and I hope the freedom of speech remains for a long time indeed -------------------- the internet is one of them
We give people more benefits than any time in history and have more generous welfare programmes than virtually any other country in the world. This is hardly 'barbaric'. We also have such low unemployment that we have to import hundreds of thousands of foreign workers each year. Why do the British working class not want to work anymore? Is it because they can get the same amount of money or more on benefits that they could get in a factory job?
Corruption,greed, discrimination! That's how Universal Credit are playing the game now. They tried to do the same thing with me, and I told Universal Credit they will end up in court, the next time this happens again.
I often wonder how this boy got on? Does anybody know ? It would be so nice to know that he found someone to help him? God bless him wherever he is? 🌟💫🌟
One comment above says he died
@@unknownunknown2576 These tory pyscopaths will need to get their comuppence if that is the case? Monsters! That poor young fellow! I really hope it is not true?? :-(( Its heartbreaking!
@@unknownunknown2576Do we know what of?
So a homeless person is expected to have a bank account, a phone and Internet access? Duh... And what happens when more and more jobs are replaced by automation and robots? Is it food banks for everyone?
Food banks for everyone = communism
Alphatucana it’s happening
Well, the government is taking care of migrants, and taxing the working people for it.
But yet the people in the video aren't migrants, they're pure white English......and they have no job or education. Patel comes from Indian and goes to university here while Sam who's English didn't bother in school and now is on benefits. Makes sense.
@@AhmedAli-qb5hu Minorities get special entrance into colleges and universities, and financial help, that whites don't get. Whites don't get any breaks. A white can have good grades, but his race hinders him from being selected. It's all based on race now.
It doesn't work. If anything it brings your self-esteem and confidence down and it's soul-crushing, they attack people who can no longer work and can't afford to pay the rent or buy food, how are they meant to survive 5 weeks without money? This system is a load of crap.
the old fashioned way
Exactly its just worng!!!!!!
Yeah exactly it should be done with a structure to it
Poverty and social inequality is a corner stone of British society. We never grew out of the idea of a "peasant class" and the "wealthy lord/lady" class. We just made it more subtle. Now people on benefits are used as a Scape goat for social problems while the ruling class get to eat dinner in litteraly gold plated halls in parliament. But it's not like we actually want to change it. Having poor people trapped in a benefit system is what we want, we are happy with it despite our complaining and we won't do anything to change it or to stand up to the wealthy ruling class.
Higher living expenses. Rents, council tax, heating bills constantly increasing, but wages are static. What I earn per hour now in 2021 is almost exactly what I earned per hour in 2000. Something must be done to stop this.
im disgusted at this country and at our government. i am from manchester and lived here all my life and i see so many homeless people compared to say 5-6 years ago. my heart really went out to the young lad in this video i really hope he is doing ok. i also feel sorry for the man that has been working for 45 years and now has to go to a food bank to survive.....its just utter garbage... we need a revolution. we need to stand up as 'the people' and demand out government do something because this system is not working for the vunerable out there. i hate to see this country in 10-20 years time.
we need a change of government . . . only way
@@MsDragonfly58 They're all the same. Privileged elite, who only care about their own wealth.
As long as there are brinless people constantly voting for torries, nothing will change.
Greedy MPs living on opulence while taken away dignity of vulnerable
It's not the fault of MPs if people are given money for rent and spend it on something else. If these people make bad choices that's on them not the government.
I've been on Universal Credit for about 6 months now and being pushed further into debt every week from rent arrears and owing to other people. Universal Credit DOES NOT WORK!!! I keep telling the DWP this but keep running into walls.
Watching that young boy struggle to explain how bad his situation is with the weight of problems he's facing that was hard to watch I really hope he's doing ok he looked so distressed and so lost 💜💕💕 this countries problems scare me !
Jesus almost lost hope scrolling through comments so many people so toxic.
Probably won't be okay. Ridiculous
I lost my job I have always worked since I left school I am in my 50s , I had to claim Universal Credit and my husband works full time I had to wait 5 week before any payment , so when it came online for my pay it said "0" I wasn't entitled to any payment because my husband was working and earning to much because he was working overtime to keep things ticking over . Its disgraceful I worked since leaving school and cannot get any money so we are thrown to one side like I dont exist and get nothing.
Yea exacly because this universal credit u can receive when u working only thats she Tell me in Job Center if u not working they pay 0
Sickening
Tories for ya.
That's messed up
I need to sign up to this well already did because I am working but getting under £900 a month so need more to cover my rent
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” ― Sholem Aleichem
@iClash >Sholem(Solomon) Aleichem Rabinovich(1859-1916),Yiddish author from Ukrain, born in rich merchant family, so yes he was, born with silver spoon in his mouth.
Staight facts
I'm wise then, as I still treat it as a dream. Hope next it will be a comedy..
So sayeth Brad Wesley's in car stereo.. :0) (Roadhouse)
Try Grid-Group Cultural Theory which is a simple explanation for why his wisdom is true 🤔
Job centre have been shifting on young folk for years. Santioned me telling me I wasn't looking for work when I was but they stopped my money anyway for months. I was starving and had to steal to be able to eat. This is what we've been dealing with for years.
This is a cruel and wicked system. Lack of care for humanity. People are being put in debt because of universal credit. They have no regard for those suffering, and the poor in need. My heart aches for that 19year old young man, who is forced to live on the streets with nothing,he’s hardly out nappies let alone these heavy burden on him. God loves the poor and despises the wicked. Prayers for all of us. God bless!!!
Austerity is social cleansing. Last year it was reported that 120,000 of the most vulnerable people in the UK have died since the Welfare Reform Act of 2012. The figure is expected to reach 300k by 2020.
internet champ its called population reduction and they are doing it on purpose
What is the definition of "most vulnerable" because if it includes "in hospital and about to die" or "95 years old" I would expect a number of them to die. "Most vulnerable" is used as a nebulus shield to hide all sorts of lies and distortions.
So true. Some of us aint dead yet. We're just too strong.
Coulter there’s been an average of 2000 people a year kicked of sickness benefits and told they’re fit for work and died within a month of the illness they were refused benefit for. I crushed 5 vertebrae and damaged 7 disc’s and was refused disability benefit and told I could have jobseekers allowance because there was still jobs I could do even though I’m paralysed from the waist down and have limited movement in my arms. I had to appeal and was given £29 a week until my appeal which took 14 months until the appoitment. I won my appeal just like 90% of everyone else who has an appeal. The reason this has happened is because their is subcontractors doing the medical’s and they were getting paid for every person they deemed fit for work. There was an undercover program on the subject and one of the people doing the medicals admitted he was making £18,000 a month and knew before he saw the person if they were going to be made to seek work or not and some days he said he wouldn’t pass a single person. The conservatives have targeted the most vulnerable in society they’ve also cut funding to mental health by 80% and social care is virtually non existent.
Shocking beyond words, this government makes me sick to my stomach . The bible tells us to help the sick and poor, needy something they have never heard of . Horrific times were living in , end days !!
The 5 weeks without a payment is just rediculous, what idiot in government thought that would even be ok??? How are they supposed to even eat for 5 weeks???????????????
They are supposed to eat with the money from their last benefit payment or salary. If they have no money at all then they are given an additional emergency payment or bridging loan. That is how they eat. It's a pretty good system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still does not seem to be working though as people are taking out loans with massive interest repayments attached. Many people on minimum wage and below have very little in the way of savings and have been paid wages on a weekly basis, so they are ill prepared should their job evaporate.
@@ashleyfield63 And what happens if all of their money from their last salary had to go on bills and then they have another month of bills they cant pay for because they dont have any money and then they owe late payment fees on those bills...the bridging loan is a loan they have to pay that back also, and its not the full amount of what they were supposed to get to pay all their bills that month...let alone have anything to eat
@@ashleyfield63 Don't glamorise it. It's not fit for purpose and people are suffering for it!!!!!
I to a UC I get £641 per month includes £350 housing benefit my rent is £500 per month by the time I've paid has electric water internet I'm left with about £20 per month don't drink or smoke I've asked IF for a referal for a good bank they flatly refuse saying I get to much money yet a friend was told its because of the back plans of so many needing food parcels government has banned them from doing referals
Shame on those who sit back and do nothing to help these people.
There's always been talk of the second coming of Christ, but I want to know when Guy Fawkes will return. He's so desperately needed today.
Ha ha that's just excellent. #BOOM*!
lolllllllllllllll
For such a wealthy country to do this is beyond shameful. The UN was right, the UK is doing this in a purposefully callous way.
The UN has no right to dictate to the U.K. with Tedros taking back handers from the Chinese.
wealth gained through slavery and colonialism only went to the Queen .
maybe they'll be able to step in and do something at some point in the near future
@@oscargrainger2962 Tedross is from my country Ethiopia
the country has bad leadership
Oh my god that 19 year old 😭 I wanna give him a hug and help him
I was homeless at 23 years old. At the job centre and local council offices, they said that the government wanted unemployed under-25s to move back in with their parents, so they wouldn't offer full rent, or be willing to let me apply for an emergency loan for a deposit. If it hadn't been for friends letting me sofa-surf, and use their address and phone number for job applications, I've no doubt I'd be dead by now.
How can anyone leave a 19 year old lad on the street?? This made me cry, I hope he's found a home. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Well even the universal credit did. They could've just let him sleep in there. In the facility. It's better he sleep on the chairs or worst case scenario on the floor of the building, than the f**kn streets.
It heartbreaking but there are plenty of youth on the street due to drugs, leaving family because of their sexuality, abused and poverty. The fact the government care about themselves then the people. It time to held our government accountable as system is broken
Bumped into him a couple months back , his doing alot better now . Very happy lad :)
It's disgusting that young people are having to actually live and sleep in the streets ok maybe some maybe drug addicts but they need help not kicking when there down .
because of his gender they still have an archaic view that because hes male he should just get on with it, seems equality doesnt include fairness for men
I hope someone helped that 19 year old after this exposure; give him a job
I agree.. Unlike a lot of people on benefits, he seems like he really wants to make a success of his life
LOL job?! Nah, get him signed on and he can come and work in Poundland for his dole like the rest of the "work experience" folk.
Yes please give job to work I don't need unveil crdt
but yeah once all that's done, promote him on linkedIn or give him a job by all means
I agree but the poor guy wil struggle with no Id bank acc and credit rating etc
feel so bad for that boy... 2 years past and wish he is doing fine now.
My brother had Multiple sclerosis and tried for weeks to get money when he was no longer able to work. By the time he was granted a small amount for a few weeks matters changed again when he collapsed in the street and spent half of a year in hospital. As luck would have it he had already moved in to live with my mother because any Universal credit was stopped while he was in the hospital. The whole system is terrible, I think that I would have killed myself if I had multiple sclerosis and was treated the same. I do know that some scammers have been fiddling the system and this totally countermands those who genuinely need support.
It is working perfectly. Doing exactly what it was intended to do. The Torys are just annoyed that food banks have sprung up to reduce the number of undesirables who are starving
exactly :(
Reptile Overlord yes #teresamaysocialclense
Exactly.
Food banks were set up by LABOUR to discredit the government. I've lived through strikes, 4 day weeks and redundancies....with received nothing. So stop being so bloody spineless and man up!
rose ipk universal credit was also set up by labour.
Such a cruel, and heartless and sadistic Tory Government to treat vulnerable people in such an an abominable way.
Did the last Labour government treat people any differently? I think we get too many benefits in Britain. We should work harder, like the Eastern Europeans do.
so true . . . . totally agree
It's ridiculous that this can be done to people. I have many health issues that do affect the type of work I can do and the amount of hours I can do but I have worked and I will be going back to work when some of my issues are in a better way but I've dealt with the jobcentre people and they are just unrealistic and come across as being heartless and don't care about how their actions are affecting people and its because they are allowed to get away with it
The Tories are an absolute disgrace. Get Truss to live on Universal Credit for a week and she'll be crying into her champagne.
Poor young man, life is ruined if he does not get help. God bless him
Makes me ashamed to be British, I have a son Ryan's age 😢
I dont wish to be considered British anymore. I have ZERO allegiance to the country I live in. Hope they never expect me to fight for this country, cos it aint happening.
@@SA77888 Same as and despite being born here i people try to call me British in my eyes i'm a British citizen but my family origins always come first to me Yet people can't get there heads around that i'm always more into my family's country's/dna origins ie my dna origins, this country just makes me sick to the core
Truest word Britain isn't British anymore
Britain need Islam.
I have a 5 year old scared to think what it will be like when he is that age
I pray for the homeless 19 year old.
No I.D .????????? Wtf!!!!!!
kzhead.info/sun/l9lpct2KrJuiZXk/bejne.html this is him
He needs to apply for a provisional license and head over to the library to access the internet. Quite simple
@@fredgalaxy7632 Not quite as simple. A provisional licence costs money which he does not have, and to get one requires submission of an identity document which he does not have. It also requires addresses for the last 3 years including an address to send it to. He may not be able to use a computer, who knows? Apply for your first provisional driving licence - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) I hope someone took him into their home until he got himself sorted out. He seems like a nice lad. I wonder what happened to his parents and why he is not with them. Maybe he grew up in a care home.
@@heliotropezzz333 Thankyou for pointing this out that it is not "quite simple". People's ignorance always amazes me.
There are no ethics in poverty. The whole concept of king and country is meaningless to those in poverty. If a person is hungry and has no support, can one blame them for stealing food from supermarkets?
Solutions: 1. rent and house price caps 2. Huge taxation on empty properties 3. Ban foreign realestate speculation 4. Eviction protection for vulnerable people 5. Huge taxation on the realestate industry to fund housing benefits The commoditvation of housing is the main cause of poverty in the west.
factory prisons excocet missile slams into the house of pedofiles everyone has a party - abolish tax on fuel - reverse privatised public stuff like utilities & railway - another party - ban the 5 main political parties in favour of a no party system where everyone parties - build a wall around merseyside to keep the snow mexicans out :) simple solutions for a better britain !
How scary to see that even people who were formerly working for so long are now left to scramble. Not to mention, that poor 19-year-old. I wonder if he was kicked out and forced to face a harsh reality, completely unprepared. No one talks about how to survive on the streets or poverty in school.
Right on! Those are the kinds of lessons that should be taught not some of the nonsense and irrelevant crap they've always insisted on doing.
Even people who work full time jobs are using food banks. The system is utterly broken for the majority of working class people. It's disgusting
This was 4 years ago in UK, imagine how it is now, it's worse than this.
THE COUNCIL TOLD ME TO LIVE ON THE STREETS TOO & WHEN I TOLD THEM I TRULY NEED HELP THEY SAID MAKE BETTER CHOICES & LEFT ME TO IT 💯 🙉 🙈 🙊 HOWEVER I DIDNT NEED CREDIT, I NEEDED HOUSING
it's all about keeping the people in a state of fear and anxiety!!!
Your 1000% thay are doing this all over
The media & the Labour party have that covered
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond great user name!! That was a very good carry on film!!
Funny I should see this comment Feb 2021
The irony of this comment. Isn’t this the truth.
There will only be 2 classes left by design. Extremely rich and extremely poor.
Just like African countries, in my home country Nigeria, that is the situation, extremely rich or extremely poor.
All thanks to David Cameron and duncan smith.
Universal credit isn’t working cause it’s a pittance
This is so terrible it broke my heart when i saw that young caring lad on the streets looking ill and pale . I would really love to help him where he could have id and a nice hot lunch and washed and properly cared for . Where is his parents .? If only he could get access to a computer or laptop to sort his self out it would get him on the step. Other wise he and many others will die. It gets me so mad how heartless people can see this happening and close there eyes to it. Them bloody tories. NEVET VOTE A TORY.
I don't claim benefits but how can the state expect these people to live 4/5 weeks without any payment?
I'm afraid this is the purpose of the delay. They expect some people will end their life so gov doesn't have to pay benefits.
There not without a payment can get an advance to cover. There’s no difference from universal credit to jsa. It’s all about budgeting for them 4 weeks not two. Rent has always been 4 weeks arrears so I don’t get the point there making there.
I was told I could not get an advance payment whilst waiting for my first payment, so it's a bit more complex than that.
The only thing that bothered me about this is the woman who will happily claim benefits but sees asking for help with food as beneath her!? Where's the logic in that?
For something that was originally envisaged to be available to everyone, the Department for Work & Pensions has made it nearly impossible to claim for. I've worked all my life, but there was a moment when I was made redundant and had to claim for UC. I spent ages filling in the many complicated forms, waited for weeks for a response, phoned them many times to find out what was going on, only to be eventually told that I wasn't applicable! I'd paid my taxes without fail, but because I'm single with no family of my own I'm not eligible for anything, not even basic assistance with the rent? *Disgusted doesn't cut it.* I had to get by doing odd local jobs for people, cash in hand, doing anything from mowing lawns to fixing folks' stuff just to survive. God bless my sympathetic neighbours and my understanding landlord, because Universal Credit is nothing but a kick in the teeth for the working man.
finding work
In the US, your Not being Qualified under such.conditons would be Discrimination and Not Allowed! My heart goes out to All of the People who are in need.of some assistance and encounter a Terrible Bureaucracy and endless forms to fill instead! So happy to see the Royals being taken care of/ NOT!!! I couldn't Live with myself knowing l have the Power to make things happen but, instead only serve as Fodder for Gossip Magazines! Despicable!!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Meanwhile members of parliament own 2 property’s
So what they earn they money and property
@@ta8258 a politician earning their own money? stay off the kool aid
Universal Credit is cruel ! I’ve seen the effects it’s having on people in Swansea. And I’m not talking about people who don’t want to work. People who have worked hard all they’re lives but now they can’t. The food banks are always packed. Homelessness has doubled. It’s gone really bad lately.
I lived in Swansea for 5 years and it was obvious to me that the number of homeless people had significantly increased within that time!
Death to Globalism and the One Party State of LibLabCon.
@@johnmacaroni105 100%
1000%
I find it amazing that Swansea is a city of Sanctuary!! But it's not a Sanctuary for everyone, is it!! More should be done for our own people, it's scandalous!!
My lads have been through this and they were treated like rubbish. Thankfully there on there feet now, they really were left to die. It's absolutely shocking.
Can u put a spell on the torys espeshley muderer may n priti patel be a great start that 🤗
@@dannyhammett5221 Haha... if they were worth the energy, but there not. It's all theatre. Spells take a lot of energy and preparation something I would not waste on them.
The community needs to come together and organise a protest against the issues they face today. Thats what happened in the past and it worked but now no one cares and the government knows this and takes advantage. In my opinion, I've lived in London all my life and seen this happen to many people..it's disgusting...and disappointing knowing ...people are living on the streets
why did a lot of poor people vote tory this time beggars belief
I've been struggling financially over the past few years but voted for Boris for the sake of the country 🇬🇧
Because Tony Blair sold out the British working man to the European project that had a catastrophic affect on availability of jobs and housing. The result of this EU project is, low wages supported by government approved minimum wage, astronomic house prices, supported by changes in the law made by Tony Blair in 1997 to abolish mortgage underwriters. The NHS is broken because of the 300,000 extra people that come here every year. Britain is broken as a direct result of the last Labour government. Thats why people have voted for the conservatives. Margret Thatcher predicted all this in 1992. twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1207046547155902466?s=04&fbclid=IwAR3cOo0w-YFbTWer6IABY0w0uVHnZ0saD4LyfwhRM98Dp4JS-r2HLUPwS_s
Mushroom Head 🤦♀️
@@mushroomhead3054 For the sake of the country! lol.
@@digdougedy tony blairs new labour was just conservatives in disguise
Kick May out now.
#Teresamaysocialcleanse
Corbyn would worsen the situation. Remember, Labour put us in this mess.
Monarchist 18 What mess is that then?
Kick em all out ,clearly incapeable of getting anything done ! (including brexit)
Labour are no better, with there lies.
2021 and nothing as change..
There are now more food banks than macdonalds
Apparently Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t electable but Boris is 🤦🏽♂️. I would say we asked for it but I find that difficult as these are our people that are struggling.
It will end up with ppl doing crime to end up in jail so they will have food in prison
and it would probably cost them more to keep them in prison than to give them fair benefits
@@mrbogdanoff9233 Yep and that is the crazy part.
my late mum used to say.don't go to number 10 to protest.go to the palace.they will soon listen lol.
please do a piece on "under employment" and how those numbers are being used to lie by politicians
how people live off universal credit is beyond me . I was on it a few months and started getting depressed and anxious. lucky for me it doesn't take long to find work.
All I can say is the system is corrupt and this is one of the most depressing news stories I’ve ever seen.
well there have to be jobs. and those jobs have to be enough income to pay rent and food. UK seems to be falling into almost third world status for many of their citizens.
UK is returning to the Victorian era.
Please do some research
This country is absolutely sick!!!!!!!!!!
I turned 25 a few months ago and I started getting paid more by them.. when I was in my earlier 20's I really REALLY needed to opportunity to get myself out of a situation where I was dependent on the charity of lovely people but the peer pressure of being involved with drugs which ultimately felt like the price to pay for company and shelter. When I hit 25 I was out of the woods largely with some horror stories that would certainly have been avoided. I just think UC does a bloody awful job of helping specifically vulnerable young adults safety and to access their potential- I offered a multitude of solutions if I could have even had an advanced payment to start a business- I always paid my debts before even eating so I really do feel let down. Especially seeing as I'm in this position because they forced me to stay in school where socialisation was a huge problem for me from an early age it caused me a distain for authority which simply is an obstacle for surviving in these modern times.
Not rent arrears can build up, but more a case of rent arrears WILL build up because rent is due in advance not in arrears.
Theres no lower feeling than having no food and having to go to the food bank for food , ive only done it once, never again .
I would rather kill myself than beg for food :( but that's what the government wants.
This is absolutely terrifying. I come from Tory family background but after 12 years Tory government we need to get rid of them & help these people.
that poor lad looks so tired.i really hope your in a better place stay strong brother !!!
now on 3rd week of sanctions ( lost £50 a week) because I failed to attend an appointment at the JC despite the fact that I was attending a job interview. I even gave the JC permission to contact the potential employer. aparrantly I did not provide sufficient evidence.... what did they want? so now its being appealed, 3 weeks on still no decision on that appeal... absolute MADNESS!
perhaps part of becoming a MP should include a week course on being alone, sleeping on the streets, cold & hungry. just a week mind...because i think that would be enough to focus the mind. there should also be a element of "community service" too...one week a year (unpaid) working in a foodbank, homeless hostel or suchlike.
Donald trump was million and millions in debt he recovered !
I think even just living in a council estate will wake up those money hungry torys and make them see what they are doing to people
Bloody right. That’s such a good idea.
Wow yes what a great idea it should be a requisite but maybe 1 month instead
@@MrStarsuicide Not everyone has Russian oligarch mafia gangsters to bail them out.
What work? This government back in the 80's shipped all industry overseas and closed down many avenues of employment then told people to find work. The same government 40 odd years on are doing the same as Thatcher did in the 80's.
Its ironic that before I watched this video there was an advert for Hungry Jacks. This great big burger stuffed with chicken etc. What is it like for homeless people to watch this. I felt sorry for that 19 year old young man, he seemed decent. What is happening to people.