Lexie G on 11 January 2022

I haven’t filled my diary for a while, I just haven’t been in the best place mentally or physically. My disability worsens with the winter and so does my mental health, this wasn’t helped this year with the added worry of Christmas after the removal of the UC uplift, the massive increase in energy costs and increase in food costs it’s been almost unbearable. We have spent many days either cold or hungry and some days both. How can this be called living when I am barely surviving? I have spent so many hours just trying desperately to juggle the meagre pittance we get to make it cover all the essentials and it just won’t. How are we ever supposed to get out of poverty? When the people in poverty don’t have enough to cover essentials we fall further and further behind incurring more and more debts and charges. When will this downward spiral end????

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