Checked bank account. Housing benefit usual fortnightly amount of £273 is reduced to £195. Its bank holiday long weekend and nobody can answer my phone call in the council until they return on Tuesday. No letter, no warning in advance. This happened 3 years ago and 4 years ago and 5 years ago and 6 years ago. Housing benefit cuts and being made evicted from private let flats. Of course they need to recover all the extra budget they paid out to self employed during the pandemic. The self employed abuser father who refuse to pay child maintenance. So there you go. Leave a violent situation and not only do the government reward the abuser by allowing him to continue with financial abuse, they ensure the victims (don't like that word) are punished by cutting their benefits and making them homeless.
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