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Stef Benstead

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Let justice roll like a river, righteousness like a never-ending stream

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    • Nov 22, 2018
    • 2 min

    UC budgeting nightmares

    I logged in to my UC journal today to see where DWP-UC is up to with paying me the right amount of money. They’ve made one correction –...

    • Nov 12, 2018
    • 6 min

    PIP appeal – overprepared fraud?

    I had a PIP appeal today. I’ve been waiting for it for ten months. I don’t think it went well. There are some points in my favour: the...

    • Oct 15, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Tories have messed up my council tax

    Naturally, when I’ve just got in from visiting my church’s office to ask for help because I can’t manage without paying someone to do...

    • Sep 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Money matters

    DWP-UC has apparently now told DWP-ESA to stop paying me. I have received, in three separate envelopes that arrived on the same day, a...

    • Jul 26, 2018
    • 5 min

    What they don’t tell you about the JobCentre

    Yesterday I had three (!) JobCentre meetings. • One to show my housing details – the one that in my last blog I’d had to ask my housing...

    • Jul 24, 2018
    • 4 min

    What they don’t tell you about (applying for) Universal Credit

    I didn’t know when I applied for Universal Credit that they would require three meetings to be arranged within that week, let alone why....