Food and Drink #60 Make Way For Ducklings

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becca7721 said:
Getting bombarded with articles saying everyone not on UC will lose all money before 31st December. Everyone must be on UC from January.
I am absolutely terrified.
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Have you had a letter to move onto it? It’s not everyone at all. Tax credit is going to run until April and I wish I hadn’t switched over til then.
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skronkywildcat said:
I want to kill everyone in the cinema. They are all chatty cathys.
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How bloody annoying.
 
My letters go to mental health team as DWP safe place. They are not passing them on as wellbeing services (social services to everyone else) aren’t there anymore. They told DWP not risk, I’m better can sort my own benefits and tried to change address but there is risk. I lost pip and got charged with fraud as a result as wellbeing worker got prosecuted under GDPR for trying to change address without my consent and pissed off reported me for fraud.

I cannot access mental health team and cannot have letters where I live due to neighbour.

So yes they could have.

Ive no birth certificate DWP will accept as it needs to be full and my parents aren’t my parents. Cant ring DWP as can through questions and theres no address anymore. No passport, no Dr. I’m losing phone access 31/12 as well as 3G being switched off can’t afford 4G and no signal anyway.

Hencd terrified. UC wont work on this device either.

No way I can apply by then. Jobcentre isn’t plus anymore so we must all travel 90 minutes away driving to prove identity, I can’t manage transport anymore for two minutes never mind 90!
 
skronkywildcat said:
I want to kill everyone in the cinema. They are all chatty cathys.
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I don't fancy Wicked for a few reasons. I go to the cinema a lot as well. I just get the impression that Wicked would attract chatters and fidgeters and other annoyances. That and people going on about it like it's the second coming of...something. And Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande being insufferable in interviews. I really hope it doesn't win loads of awards, because the award ceremonies are going to be as cringy as hell with those two.
 
We are peanut butter snobs. Either pip and nut (the little ones/ almond and coconut) or Manilife. Manilife are doing a mince pie one at the moment.

We were going to see Conclave yesterday but we didn’t want to leave TD at home in the wind- maybe later in the week. Wicked is definitely not my thing. Their interviews made me itch, competitive attention seekers in so many ways 😞.
 
skronkywildcat said:
I want to kill everyone in the cinema. They are all chatty cathys.
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Always a song lyric (from Beach Front Property by Spanish Love Songs)

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zetta buttons said:
As far as I know it’s going on until well into next year (it was going to take until 2028 for some but they sped up the process).

As Hotes said, you have 3 months from the date of your letter, but you can apply for an extension if you do so before that 3 month deadline . Please don’t be terrified ❤.
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I can’t get the letter. 31st is cut off for 3G my devices as well mine only run 3G - desperately been trying to get money for that.
I can’t get to now nearest jobcentre to prove identity so wouldn’t get it anyway.

Articles are everywhere, you know what the internet is like. 2028 was supposed to be cut off for contribution based esa move (which means I’d lose my pension contributions and income protection from incapacity benefits) which I’m supposed to be on but my thick ex advocate got me put on income based because she didn’t bother to ask me or check the rules about cost of living payments (I was excluded because of fraud charge - I’m not fraud but couldn’t travel to court, ironically due to illness, so lost case).

ETA 2028 marks age by which most with my condition (90%+) have died so Ive been prioritising everything else.
 
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Changing subject, watch that whiplash kids, is there any point in trying to get to the “post office” to send parcel tomorrow? There’s still a lot of damage, places with electricity cut off, flooded and no water. I’m struggling to wrap things with my hands and, already mentally struggling with other stuff, obviously internet stalking me hasn’t helped this evening, and it’s just really upsetting me trying to do it.
 
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