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The Universal Credit Crisis - BBC Panorama
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ย. 2018
- As the government's controversial new benefits system, universal credit, is rolled out, Panorama is with families as they struggle with their claims. The programme follows one council as it deals with mounting rent arrears and tenants in crisis. The government has responded to criticism of the new system by announcing more funding, but is it too little too late?
Wait. He goes for the appointment, the lady he's supposed to meet is on holiday. And then he is treated as having missed the appointment??? And sanctioned ??? In what world is that fair?? I live in Asia and even I know that is a load of bollocks.
I'm in Africa and I know that's shit.
I know how crazy!!
Even the media is dodgy, the BBC has made documentaries about universal credit system while only consulting the dwp aka murderous eugenicist pigs killing disabled people, and not seriously consulting charities representing disabled people on benefits.
He missed appointments previously but that appointment where the advisor was on holiday isn't his fault. He was on time yet he was sanctioned anyway. It's ridiculous.
14:49 that's his story. This "Reporter" just takes his word for it. Doesn't walk in the door again with him and ask if this is the real situation. Just reports it as fact without gathering facts. I surmise he was not there at the correct day and time but she could have found out right then and right there but that didn't fit her narrative.
I agree the Universal Credit system fails the most vulnerable. But it would be nice to access what is really going on but " investigation's" like this do not help anything. It only creates bias and shaming and doesn't improve the daily lives of people who need help.
My Dad had a saying when we were Kids, he used to say , always pay your rent first then atleast you know you have a warm cave to forage from.
at the rate this goverments going we will all be living in caves soon.
Great advice.
My granny used to say exactly the same to me when I was a kid
But if you have mental issues you don't think of paying your rent you just see that money in your hand And if you have an addiction for say alcohol or gambling you just spend it
But I can see where you are coming from as an intelligent intellectual guy but you have got to think not everyone thinks like us .
Shut the fuck up
@@jackwatsonepic626
Yer da sucks boaby
Yer maw sells Avon
Even those working are struggling
This country is messed up
@Tonya Antony there is too many people who want to live like the Joneses
I was working poor until I emigrated . Will never come back . I was working to just about sustain myself while dossers sat around smoking and gossiping and living pretty much the same life as me but without the effort . I will never come back .
@@SB-dx7kb west coast of America . The attitude is so different ! Hard work and endeavor are respected , praised even . The attitude and I don’t know if it’s an invisible class thing is terrible in the uk . People want you to fail and are happy when it goes wrong . You only realise that attitude when you leave . Are you planning on leaving yourself ?
@@samoday2992 we don't want you back believe me 😂😅👍
@@ArtsyStudios you can keep your emergency leccie and food bank
When me and my partner lost our jobs, we were told by the job centre that their computer systems were struggling with universal credit claims and would often just stop working, and they had basically had the whole new system dumped on them with no training on how to actually work it. We were dutifully told that, well, there are food banks so at least you won't starve. Got a new job within a few weeks, thank God, because we could've been homeless and the system was in no way there to help.
Very sad
You should be grateful moaner
Man at 6.38 'I've even looked for somewhere to live, and I've found a bridge where I can live.' A bridge. At 63. What a sad situation
It is however he does say that he spends his rent money........
Worked his entire life as a mechanic. Sad.
it is disgusting ,
it makes me angry universal credit should have kept paying the rent to the landlord. they did this to let people get in rent arrears so if people don't have a fix a bold they can't claim benefits ,
@@lisapincott1414 yes but that is why this government came out with giving the people on benefits their rent money in their hand instead of leaving it. It used to be direct to the landlord but they knew if they had a problem gambling or drinking or drugs they would spend it and end up homeless that's why they brought it out because they knew that. in a way it is not the claimant fault it's the government's fault for coming up with this her brain scheme in the first place . It's common sense to me like and we on benefits are supposed to be the thick ones
The rent should still be paid directly to the council or landlords; that was a stupid move by the government 🙄
Deliberate not stupid. They knee exactly what it would do thats why it's less than what people had in the first place. Oh they knew alright that's why people are angry
in northern ireland rent is paid directly to landlords and payments are twice a month.why cant england adopt this policy after all it is the same system
Even when it is paid directly to landlords, there is a stipulation with some councils that if for whatever reason the tenant got paid housing benefit when they shouldn't have been, the landlord then has to pay it all back. It is another system that just encourages landlords not to want to even let to people on benefits.
@@martinstevens6955 They want the houses back so they can rent them out on Airbnb
It was like that but they changed it to Universal Credit and is continuing throughout the country. It really is a stupid system especially with people having to pay their rents straight to council or private landlords. Very difficult for lone women with children around Christmas time and also people who like the drugs.
This is proof that Britain has not come out of the Victorian age.
I've had two male friends pass away due to universal credit, since this video was posted in Nov 2018.
It's a culling of the poor, they would rather see us all dead than give anyone a penny.
Did they commit suicide?
How is it a cull?
@@anonomous8719 130,000 dead directly linked to universal credit. Its a genocide of the poor.
@@liddlebuddy9738 why couldn’t they live off of what they got?
@@anonomous8719because the price of rent has sky rocketed, the cost of living crisis has put a stranglehold on food costs etc
Make no mistake, the changes to the benefits system were never about ‘saving money’, ‘austerity’ or any of that nonsense. It was about deliberately attacking the most vulnerable in our society. Notice how no MP seemed to be in any way troubled by austerity cuts. Notice how none of the austerity measures involved closing tax loopholes for the richest individuals and companies. Notice how in the months and years leading up to the changes, there was a rash of TV programmes about people on benefits, specifically designed to make them look bad and like they were all scroungers, so everyone would just sit back and let the tories get away with what they’ve done. Given the number of deaths directly related to the benefit cuts, I’d venture to suggest that it’s a form of genocide.
I agree. Pity they can't be honest and have the decency to just top people and be done with it.
Brilliant. Couldn't have put it better myself. That is exactly what is happening.
Anne, so beautifully said. And with an amazing level of understanding how the Elite work. Well done they need to be exposed!
Anne Munro agree
Very well said
I wish the tories would stop telling us that universal credit is working it is not working GET RID OFF IT.
chris conway people need to claim it properly ?
one size fits all systems never work for long. the people who designed it dont want to face the people they have wronged.
until government employees have to pay for their mistakes nothing with change.
Exactly.
Get rid of the Tories too, French Revolutionary style.
@T 7 No. Scrap Universal Credit and return to the old system, which worked better. It's just these Tory bastards and their supporters we need to get rid of. They've wrecked the so-called 'UK'.
Seeing the two older gentlemen looking so defeated so tired broke my heart, I would never have wished to see that look in my dads eyes, it really does seem just impossible for people to live with the rules that are ultimately made by people who have never been in those kind of situations
Seeing the blackshagger broke my heart too
Made me cry
So sad, I'm so scared of what's going to happen to the elderly people, my god he's 63 years old and have to find a job!
The moron didn't pay his rent and spent it on a dog and tropical 🐠 fish.. LMMFAO 🤡😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Yes, the poor old bugger who didn't pay FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS in rent, that the taxpayer gave him. Old, but not very wise. Living off others his whole life I expect.
The government 5 years ago should have told people to have an emergency bank account. Income Support and Universal Credit have a savings limit of £6000. I feel very sorry to the man with £4000 rent problems. He is 63 years old and has worked all of his life. This system is horrible for everyone on it. Not all homeless families can get a home to live in!
The whole system seems carefully designed to victimise the most vulnerable. Not that that's much of a surprise coming from the "I'm allright Jack" Tories :-(
marconatrix these are all examples of Claimants who have not claimed properly?
it does its population control
they wiping out a third of the population!!
All these fools were young once why they didn't create systems for themselves so that now they can live properly. I'm not sorry for them. I won't make their silly move.
Ryland Painter - Maybe one day you will be too sick to go to work and will end up homeless - with no money and no food! Unless you have rich parents or family what will you do?!?!
Omg im crying for these elderly men in dispair!... I hope this situation changes for the better rather fast 🙏🏾.. it’s disheartening 😢
I thought I was the only one. Watching this hurt my heart
Ditto ...... I feel sick to my stomach watching this....poor fellow who found a bridge to live under when he gets evicted..
lol
@michael wills women don't commit suicide as much because they have the decency not to abandon those who are dependant on them like children and parents.
In Leicester we have unite community set up by the unite union to help those on universal credit. All is not lost , as a group will help those where we can. Unite community is being set up all over the country. There will be more community groups being set up to fight back against the evils of benefit changes like universal credit
What a bloody mess! Here in Australia, I get a pension, which the rent, electricity, water, etc bills get taken out before any funds are deposited into my bank a/c. I have peace of mind knowing most of my bills have already been paid.
How is it Anthony’s fault his advisor is on holiday? They shouldn’t have let him make the appointmentOR they should’ve had a different advisor available. It’s beyond cruel - just what you expect from this horrific government
Having had my severe illness for 35yrs they have now taken all of my DLA, and stolen every penny of my carers £60 pwk carers allowance. this has left us with so little we have had to sell off possessions to buy daily living. We are heartbroken & soul distroyed. Atos deliberately made up lies & disregarded important case paperwork at our interview.
So sorry. Have you seen the case of Emily Lydon, she is 19 has BSE and is not able to walk or talk is doubly incontinent and is fed through a hole in her stomach. She has been moved onto Universal credit and is receiving £58 per week, she has lost £520 per week.
They overpaid my girlfriends mum who is mentally and physically disabled, she now owes 1700 because THEY overpaid her, who tf are their accountants.
Banana they said my dad can work his on deaths door
That's also happened someone I know formerly claiming working tax credits - overpaid for a year!! (not lots, but enough for debt collectors to be involved).
Attending an appeal for a friend who was a point short for his claim next Wednesday, his social worker was too busy to attend the first appeal, so it needed to be re-booked last minute, but they are so backlogged with claims that it has been 2 YEARS that my friend is on half pay. Sometimes I wonder if they are hoping he will die, they must save millions that way.
Universal Credit Should be scrapped immediately
The British Benefits should be scrapped immediately. It would encourage 15 year olds to plan for less than 14 children.
they would not replace it with anything - thus """""""saving""""""""""""" billions
SHUT THE FUCK UP YOURE NOT THE ONE THATS GOT A DISABILITY I HAVE A SEVERE VISUAL IMPAIRMENT THAT DOESNT ALLOW ME TO GO INTO WORK
@D Singh lol I agree
@@JasonWalkerTN You are very uniformed and petty. Not on these benefits but seriously rather that people have some level of support then families and fellows being damned to starvation and the streets. Not everyone can work or work full time, and even then minimum wage is not high enough to support many of these people.
I told people over 9 years ago about the Purge. Most of you called me a fool. Few people actually believed what I was saying. Undoubtedly there's a very clear correlation between deaths after vulnerable people had their benefits stopped. But I ask you all this question now.
When it is fully discovered the amount of people who have died or committed suicide immediately following their benefits being stopped. Will you hold all of them responsible the government the assessors will we sentence them to death? I ask you now as humans what is humanity in 2019?
Your rent is the most important thing because it keeps a roof over your head. Set up a standing order with your bank and you don't have to remember to pay the landlord.
that's a great idea. Why don't they do that.
Iain Duncan Smith should face jail for all the deaths UC has caused
@@Craig121000 Same nick they always use...HMP FORD/SUSSEX...GOOD NUF FOR LORD ARCHER...BET HE STILL A LORD N ALL THE CAD...
@@fionagregory8078 Fiona spears would b better
TO RIGHT MATE
His initials should be IBS
Get rid of benefits completely. No one was born to stay childlike and avoid responsibility completely as an adult. All actions have consequences.
There is no excuse when the Poles can come here with nothing, work on zero hour contracts, earn less than minimum wage, live in big groups and still survive better than natives.
If anything the natives should be smashing the immigrants into dust: better English skills, better education, supposedly superior intelligence, superior will power (stiff upper lip), have better connections, know the country, don't have to travel as far as the Poles and probably start off with more capital.
Don't take a genius to see rent should be paid direct
we shouldnt be paying private landlords wages to provide social housing in the first place....shouldnt even have private landlords.
@@brillsmith2207 universal credit is paying me less than what my private rent is.i was in full time employment when i moved in and haven't made myself intentionally fall behind with the rent.i asked my greedy landlord to reduce the rent to which he said no and as im on my own i am unlikely to get a council property anytime soon,even in a shit area
Why ? Personal responsibility.
Should be paid direct to the council... not paying a private landlords wages.That is not what i pay my taxes for. Funding social hosing yes, Paying rich idiots wages no.
we spend 26 billion per year paying private landlords to provide social housing. This is enough to build 260,000 houses per year
If people have to live by the nonsense rules they make up then they should be named as the ones making those decisions. Accountability i believe they call it.
This episode reminded me of my childhood, at that time we were on benefits, going to food banks, clothing drives for charity, it was humbling, but as the oldest of six at that time, I was eight, and I was so embarrassed, friends from school would see us walking everywhere , they weren’t real friends ,we didn’t have a car, and my mom just kept popping out kids, left home at 13 , by then, she had four more, equaling 10 kids, I could not follow in her footsteps, because I did not want to end up doing the same, ever so humbling,now that I’m an adult, three of my sisters and myself broke the chain of being poor and on benefits, I had two sons, and my other sisters didn’t have any kids they never will ,but it could still happen at a drop of a hat to us, or anyone, unless you are seriously wealthy, being rich, doesn’t stand up anymore, 2023, now this is an old show, I still pray for anyone that is still alive from back then right up until now, may you be able to live your best life ever, sadly I know more than half ,that won’t happen, I will never understand why kids have to go without, I’m talking essentials, and most importantly, food, and that’s parents working full-time, but with homes increasing in rent or mortgage, and your pay does not equal, what in the world are you to do, it’s the same here in the US, when you face being down in the deepest hole, all of a sudden the people you thought were friends aren’t, they can’t even look at you, and you’re too ashamed to look at them, on days I’m feeling down, I remind myself of my childhood, and everyone out there going through the worst times in their lives, I’ve got it pretty darn good, through hard work,with my husband, I am ashamed to ever have a moment of weakness about something trivial, there should never be a plan to. Let’s do this, and see how the people out there get by, politically that is horrid, and it does no good, and they know it., Just as they deny it.😡🥲
what they don't tell kids is if you get a state job you get a pension that can make you wealthy. and like my brother did it's law enforcement 25 years and out . get another job and collect a pension too.
I'm on UC due to disability and its took since last September until now to get the disability premium. I have 4 kids and prior to getting it we had £700 to pay all the bills gas electric food and anything else needed. Now I get my extra I'm better of than when I worked full time which is ridiculous. The system doesn't work we really struggled when I worked full time I feel for anyone who works frontline jobs that just don't pay great people will turn around and say get a better job but someone has to do it. Put wages up then food prices go up and the circle starts again the middle earners then become the low income and again us on the frontline jobs which we all got praised for during COVID get piss all. The system is so broken.
Guy getting sanctioned when he turned up on time and the lady was on holiday for 2 weeks.
Absolutely shocking!!!
Why does it seem that that the system is constantly against these people.
People get sanctioned for going to work, after they've got hired.
Fucking ludicrous.
life is shit for everyone
You live you die
Life is misery
It's a bloody disaster. The rent should be paid direct to the Landlord.
@emergerq
And they should provide full time kindergarten with meals for children and after school places for school children, and full time places for all in the school holidays. If they want these people to work full time then that is what they should be providing. More social housing should be built and not tons of money going to private landlords. Trouble is how many of these people have the skills needed in todays technological world, and what about areas of high unemployment because there are hardly any jobs what are people supposed to do?
The issue is wayyyy bigger than that - the council advise these tenants not to tell landlords that they are in receipt - landlords no longer want these tenants. Also when they miss appointments at the jobcentre (I kid you not even for bereavement - they just provide the death cert) ... they get sanctioned for upto 3 months and now all the benefits are combined that sanction include not only job seekers but the housing element. Sometimes the DWP pays this person £7 for the whole month... that’s how the arrears occur - not to mention a housing allowance of £65 per week in some areas of London -- where can u rent a room at that price 😳😳😳😳
@Jake Dean
I agree when I said Landlord I meant council's and HAs. It was the most ridiculous idea and I said so many times to the few politicians met. Housing has been neglected 40+ years. The right to buy was nuts. Over a millon homes sold and a lot of them rented out especially in popular areas. How many millions are spent on private Landlords and bed and breakfast places. Bloody stupid, this money could be better spent building social housing. I can't see things improving.
@emergerq Government isnt a babysitter for old as fuck men and women.. They are adults and they are given cash by the government. If these dumb fucks spend that free cash from thin air on drugs etc, it can only mean that THEY DESERVE TO BE ELIMINATED! THEY are calling for it themselves and have no one but their selves to blame!
Landlord should be paid directly
I don’t understand why Anthony was sanctioned for missing an appointment when he did in fact show up?
Giving the housing benefit straight to the person and not to the landlord is crazy!!
Bollocld when you wotk you have to pay your own bills
My mum is on UC and she is 65 years old,first time in her life she has had to claim benefits. She gets 90p left a month to pay for food. They are trying to get her into work but she can barely walk and they just tell her she isnt trying hard enough. UC is the worse and so many people are struggling.
Bull id love to see what shes spending her money on to get tht left
It breaks my heart to see people struggle in this way.
@Edgar J Rimkus shut up ignorant prick
they could always get a job.
@@britnic5394 its hard to work, when you have kids, plus childcare will be your whole paycheck and nothing to live on. Now i see why people choose not to work cos you just work to pay bills.
@@chantalove4906 why have children then?
@@britnic5394 you sound ignorant stfu
Makes me so angry watching helpless people lost their homes
It’s not their home.
I almost have to laugh at landlords. When you apply for Universal Credit, the average wait time is 5 weeks before you get your first payment, some people are waiting two to three months, any other benefits the person receives is stopped including housing benefit. That is an average of 5 weeks without any income whatsoever. No money for rent, food gas and electric, council tax, nothing. They automatically start going into debt not out of any choice of their own, they have no choice. Once their claim is finally processed and they get their first payment, after what could be months of barely surviving, living off food banks, the generosity of friends and family ( If they have any) and all of a sudden they get a huge amount of money. Of course they are not going to give it to their landlord. The first thing most are going to do is get the gas and electric back on (If it has been shut off) and stock the the place to the brim with food. A person who has been practically starved over what could be several months living off of barely anything but tinned food and starch (rice, pasta, etc) is not going to give a flying fig how much their landlord is owed. Especially if they have children.
I think that the people making negative comments on here have no idea how hard it can be to be unemployed.
U get a advance payment 🤦♀️... they offer it at the very first appointment after u have applied and its roughly what u would get without deductions... no one seems to mention this!!!
Maybe the landlords should give up and sell up. Do you think these poor folk could afford to buy the houses?
@Jo Bloggs yes ik but I used to only pay £20 a month... its all paid of now but they can only take 30% for all dept out of ur standard allowance max
Well if that’s the attitude of some swine bastard maybe they deserve fuck all.
Makes me so fuming mad for these people! Get sanctioned for nothing! It isn't their fault that the job market isn't good atm! This system got me in DEBT. It HINDERED me. This system punishes the poor. Blood on their hands. I am happy to say I have been employed near 2 years and nearly out of debt, I hope the same for these people.
They are literally making the poor poorer 🤨
@siwuz84 keep your money but have some human compassion
@siwuz84 you scumbag
@siwuz84 people on 'your' tax aint rich as the video clearly shows
N rosi Because they don’t give a shit about the poor and it just breaks my heart that we’re stuck with the Tories for another five years 😢
siwuz84 you really are the dumbest piece of shit on the farm
To those who have a job all i can say lets hope you dont get laid off or fall ill as this could be you, and thats why you should be allarmed at what this gov is doing ,and anyone could be next , this is far far more important than brexit or anything else.
What a stupid system. Seems like it was intentionally made to drive people out of council homes and into the streets. Sickening.
Some of these people will end their lives. There is only so much hopelessness a human can endure.
Well said top comment
Pay the rent directly to the Landlord or Councils... problem solved... the balance go to the family for personal use 😕
Jennifer Grant they want people to be responsible for making their own payments
They don't need to spend it all. I work and I can't spend all my wages in one go, disaster would happen if I didn't pay my bills first.
It is supposed to simulate a wage, so ppl get used to pay their own bills and educate themselves like this guy 13:25
Or be a responsible adult and pay the rent as soon as you get paid
I got my first house at 17 .. I'm autistic and I even pay my rent every time and on time I get my payments
THERES NO EXCUSE its literally 5 mins on the phone 🙄
They don’t want to pay their rent. They just want to complain and tell a sob story and get sympathy and more handouts
Why sanction the guy again when he was where he was supposed to be? What a ridiculously punitive and convoluted system...
And it’s about to get worse
Sanctions are often incorrectly enforced. I was sanctioned unfairly nearly 4 years ago when I was out of work. I sent them evidence in the hopes that they would reconsider and was told it was insufficient. I took them to the courts and tribunal service a couple of months later. Out of sheer arrogance or embarrassment, they never bothered to send a representative to the court date. I offered my evidence and won the case. This clearly upset the DWP as they took 2 weeks to pay the money they owed me after I phoned them and wrote to them on numerous occasions
@@generichuman2044 I hope that you are doing well. I watched this video and I cried. I'm in the U. S. it seems as if this system was designed to bring people further down in a hole.
@@generichuman2044 they are told to atleast sanction 3 people every day that's why
@@portiamatthews9654 I am doing much better now, thanks. I found work not long after that incident and have been enjoying life ever since.
I count my blessings every day.
I watch these to remind me how lucky I am
me too ,i have a job but feel desperatly sad for these people , it could happen to any one,
Me too. Alhamdulilah. My husband works very hard. I'm very grateful. He pays all the bills. We have enough food. But don't own our home. I'm fine with that. It's all the little things that mean more to me.
Unfortunately, most poor people are poor because they’ve made poor decisions. Poor choices in buying food, smoking, drinking, take away a and expensive tattoos. Also, they have smartphones and tv contracts plus pets that cost too look after. I’m 69, still working and earn less than £1k a month. Yes, I have the state pension of £150 a week. But , less than my single parent neighbour who gets £1600 a month. Whose the mug here?
@@denismclean5225 I agree with you.
After watching this film, is it not obvious that there is a direct correlation between the rise in mental health issues, particularly stress, anxiety and depression and the tortuous process of trying to claim benefits to which one may be entitled? If the government is serious about tackling mental health issues, it must surely have to recognise that financial worries play a significant role in provoking such problems. The huge cost involved in changing the benefits system has been a colossal waste of money, money that could, and should have been paid to the needy. So not only are the poor, poorer than ever before, but now they also face the prospect of mental illness as a result of anxiety, which will ultimately further reduce the prospect of being well enough to work, even if jobs, for which there is stiff competition, become available.
And you mean to tell me with all this going on, this country still has a "royal family"?
Yes, and they get a 6 million pounds a year bonus,, and anything they buy, they pay for it out of a bottomless pit of taxpayers money,, even though their multi billionaires, then theirs all their private residents, like Buckingham Palace, Sandhurst, Balmoral, Windsor Castle, Clarence House and Saint James's Palace", plus there's many more, king Charles used to have vegetables flown down from Scotland to London on a regular basis, and he then lectures people about they're carbon footprint.
They're parasites, always have been
Food banks are acceptable now in this poxy Union. The sooner people wake up and stop accepting a government that couldn't give a damn the better.What we have is DIVISION
Unfortunately the food banks are mostly supplied by the average people the same people who happen to be suffering. I'll bet you don't catch our PM or MP'S dropping food into those very charity food baskets in supermarkets and then the government act like they're the ones providing the food banks... Sorry but it's just wrong... Rich people didn't get rich giving away their money.
Food banks seem to have become the new real benefit system.
What did the idiot say at 25:03 ? Universal Credit is working well (it isn't); we've learnt in the process (they haven't); what we have is a system that is simpler (it isn't); which people understand (they don't); and ultimately make sure they get into work faster, stay in work longer and earn more (total fantasy).
How in the hell would anybody be able to climb out of the hole that the government seems to be purposely putting them in?
Perhaps the tories should live by their system and see their benefits of being an MP sanctioned and living below the breadline. It makes me sick to see children and their families begging for food in this day and age. MP's should be really ashamed of their actions. Even more of what little they have done to correct this. We should sanction the MP's expenses ! see how long it would take then for the law to change
Can't watch any more of this too depressing
It is funny though.
This universal credit is run from the same dark forces ruin this contry and this world i was in the same position get letters to repocesse my house it was very estress full 9 weeks took to sort this out i was praying every day for help and it work it was divine intervention because if not i was still waiting till now., i hope they change this to how it was before , people are sufering .
I spent nearly all of my life telling people NOT to vote conservative but what do they do? What a shitty mess.
Keith obviously has made the choice of not paying his rent! Anthony is £4K behind in his rent? What has he spent it on???
This is so upsetting. As a society, we need to get over our differences brexiteer/remainer, millennials/baby boomer, religious/aethiest, Black/white etc and we need to say NO MORE! We are in this situation because of greed. CEO payouts are bigger than ever whilst their workers wages dont move meaning they have to rely on government top ups. Disgusting, we are headed straight back to Victorian times! We must stand up!
LL divide and conquer tactics and it's working perfectly 🎉🤡🤡😂😂😂😂
People on the old benefits get almost double the money for child tax credits ppl who go onto universal credit get nothing even tho you work its disgrace-full everyone should get the same if there situations are the same
As the band UB40 once wrote in a song:
"statistical reminder of a world that doesn't care"
Pretty much sums up governments to a T.
The bands name is UB40. It's a lark, it's the government 's code for Unemployment Benifits. How old r u ?
Presenter: “One of the things about universal credit is that your rent is going to be going to you. What does that mean?”
Keith: “There’s a fair chance the council won’t be getting it. I’m just terrible with money” 😭😭😭💀💀.
I almost fell out my chair with the directness 🤣. These people need to be taught basic budgeting and financial literacy.
You gotta laugh haven't you. But after being skint for 3 weeks, I'm not surprised they go on a spend up with the universal credit. Some people are just crap with money.
If you’re in social housing or council housing it’s paid directly to the council you don’t get it.
If Keith ends up being evicted, it will be his own fault.
@@juliewills8034 why because heating and eating is just as important?
I wanted to feel sympathy but for some of the people she interviewed you could see why they were close to eviction. The mechanism Anthony was 4k in rent arrears and he lives in a council house in wales, rent in wales isn’t that high so that means he would have missed paying at least six months of rent if not more. But if you look around his house you can see a champagne bottle and he smokes. It’s obvious where his money went.
Big thank you to the BBC for this programme, revealing the ongoing UC scandal and also for upholding free speech by allowing comments on this site.
@@wutang6020 Yes, it would be interesting to see an undercover programme on DWP sanction targets and on how the government have misused non-disclosure orders to gag charities that receive government money (nay, more like taxpayer's money), preventing recipients from exposing the true level of poverty that they have caused and stymying free speech.
I don't understand why the 63 year old guy was sanctioned?
He turned up on time for his appointment, the advisor was on holiday for 2 weeks (he/she should have informed the claimant in advance), claimant gets sanctioned because the advisor is on holiday? Wtf can someone explain because that has never happened to me when an advisor has not been there to see me.
@@brucebiggy3593 It is reckoned that the advisers have sanctioning targets. Something very wrong with a system that imposes loses of money that are greater than criminal fines.
@@439bananas Yes I know all that already. But this guy should have complained /appealed the sanction because it wasn't his fault.
He has a genuine case to complain.
@@brucebiggy3593 Indeed he does, but sadly not everyone is that clued up or assertive or even eloquent.
I feel sorry for a lot of people and if I could help I will
Bless your caring nature.
There are a lot of ways you can help those in need. Donating old items to shelters, organisations & even charity shops help the most poor in our society. Even if you donate one food item a week to a food-bank it will make a huge difference. You can also donate your time if you are willing. Even just encouraging others to donate items & recycle will help.
@@NotAnotherKuromi he said if he could he would now su
Why would they pay benefits direct to the claimant? Many of the claimants struggle to manage their finances effectively
The more people get evicted the more housing stock so its a deliberate move ... uc is a horrible system
All this while the Royals are flying around the world in private Jets.
Not quite.
Here in Switzerland there are specific social workers for those not able to handle finances, I’m sure it’s not cheap to run, but it makes more sense if you add up all the unpaid bills, court proceedings, etc. these are often very complicated situations that need to be somehow stabilised. One benefit isn’t a bad idea but it needs to be thought out properly
Rent in the hands of the tenants. Who didn't see this coming should be sacked.
I dont even understand. They miss meetings. They say they dont have money but can buy alcohol and cigarette
ABSOLUTELY well said!!!
We should be helping all the elderly! They're the ones who worked to make this country what it is and should be taken care of. What a disgrace that a 63 year old man has to worry about pawning things just to make a few extra dollars.
What I'm not for is the able bodied adults with no kids, who are just too lazy to work. I don't want to support those people and none of us should have too. Kick their asses off it, they'll either sink or swim. Most of those people come from generations of living off benefits and were never taught to get schooling to better themselves or to work. If their parents didn't teach them that than the government should by kicking them off it and give it to people who truly deserve it.
I work all my life and since I was 18 am 40 now .... I lost my job two months ago only received £194 in two months ... where is my tax money... I just sold my car and other belonging just to survive.
your tax money is paying for politicians second homes well done.
@@christopherfarrington9270 spot on my friend!!! Our tax money goes straight into the elite's big fat pockets.....they need the money from common people like us in order to continue living the high life that's why council tax TRULY increase......the council are in it too they are making the money and all they do is come up with excuses or so claimed administrative errors so as to not pay out to us the money we have put in the system in the first instance!!!!!!!
universal credit- what a joke!
They must have known that to spoon-feed a group of people by paying everything for them for decades and then to give them a lump sum to manage each month was never going to work.
That guy Paul Hickman did the right thing by the public in general by taking part in this documentary. Unfortunately I will bet he won't get many more jobs of this type since filming. 😔
To Paul Hickman I salute you sir!
My heart goes out to Anthony, I hope hes okay :(
R.I.P. Gt Britain!!! You are too soft. You raised the cost of living so high that both parents are always at work, rather than spending time with their children. You took God out of schools. Parents were told 'No you can't discipline your kids'. Kids have rights blah, blah, blah. Well, Gt Britain You shall reap what you sow, and we have lost a whole generation and turned them into rude, selfish, disrespectful brats who have no respect for people, property or authority! You deemed people with terminal illnesses and some with only a few months to live…fit for work!!! You allow our veterans of war to go homeless and hungry but give out millions to foreign aid!!! You stop people’s entitlement to welfare benefits thus leaving them so desperate that they commit suicide!! You put the retirement age up so people must work until they drop!! Things need to change! Copy & paste if you have the guts too!!!
This generation also have hardly any respect for themselves sad sad messed up world it is😢
Conqueror, I don't think the answer to the Universal Credit problem is to beat your children and pray to God. But I like some of your other points.
@@fionagregory8078 He must be Fiona if mere humans can throw him out of a school
This programme is a about univerial credit or have nt you notice
@nobcheesy Yes, Labour bought out a system that was too generous and open to abuse, but the answer is not to try to starve people to death. Well done incidentally for volunteering at a CAB. The current system of Universal Credit is costing more but is leaving people worse off, how is that value for money for the taxpayer?
If you force people into poverty then they either suffer ill health and become a burden on the NHS or they commit acquisitive crimes out of need and cost the criminal justice system. At the moment I can foresee the sort of situation where homeless people will live in overcrowded squats and drug-resistant TB will become rampant amongst them and quickly spread to the general population. Desperate people do desperate things. Many will turn to prostitution, soon man or woman you will not be able to walk down the street without being asked if you are looking for business. Not to mention the inevitable upswing in sexually transmitted diseases that will accompany the resultant depression of prices that will be part and parcel of an increased market supply of these services. The human misery that all this has the potential to cause far outweighs the monetary savings.
The current situation was caused, not by the poor, but by the banks' poor investments in the subprime market and the subsequent taxpayer bailout. You can bet your bottom dollar that no banker is paying to nowhere near the degree that any poor person will pay. It is just too convenient to portray the poor as villains of the piece, let's face it the tories are probably very aware that the poor do not vote for them so what better way to subvert democracy than to make the homeless and get them off the electoral roll so that they cannot vote you out of power.
agree with all your points except i work in customer service and rarely meet a rude teen or person in 20s however the 60+ generation are the worst for being rude and acting like customer service personal are their personal slaves
Still buying the smokes though.......
It's absolutely disgusting what they expect people to live on. The council can actually take the rent direct if you fall behind with it, with universal credit
That man said he had to give up his job to take care of his son..????
He has obviously never heard of daycare.☹️
Boggles the mind..!!!
How many of these people are still going to vote Tory?
Likely the ones who would prefer to blame immigrants.
Those who vote Tory know who s running the country and they know it's not immigrants
I am
Good question! They put them there
I am on UC and vote UKIP.
I don't understand why they stopped paying the landlords directly! That makes no sense! These people clearly can't manage money so pay the rent directly to the landlords. Atleast they would have a home!
They don't always pay enough for the rent. Watch the video, the calculations assumed an odd job was a permanent job.. they do not have a proper system in place. Also there is the choice to pay directly, pl who can budget shouldn't suffer because others haven't taken the appropriate opportunity.
It utterly disgusting that these people are being made homeless..Great Britain should ashamed of its policies and charity begins at home!
Now let’s have a look at the tv license and see how being forced to pay that effects those on universal credit
I’ve worked full time since I was 16 and paid into the system.Since I fell unwell over past 2 years I expected the system help me.Ive had nothing but sleepless nights and non stop money problems since put on UC from income related ESA.
I’m so angry and frustrated at the whole system.☹️
Sorry to hear that, i hope things get better for you!
I am in the same boat as you.
Reduce the renting costs, and people will get back on their own two feets .
Lukasz Lebek
LOL what???... It's very expensive to live in London. The same with all capital cities. They have the highest rent prices in the world.
Łukasz Łebek Research the financial pie. Rent is high specifically in London.
@@valeriec3064 Hong Kong and New York are also extremely expensive. My 90k apartment would be about 2 million in these cities.
Agree , having kids and no job security is how poverty starts .. no one should be born in poverty ! But people are having kids so they can claim these benefits ! .. care industry is crying out for staff .. those roles should be fulfilled before giving handsouts .. in the Eastern European countries there is no social security .. no childcare no many of the benefits from uk , people have no choice but work ..
@@ukaszebek7718 fool
Why is it so hard for the people to give the rent money by themselves
Because if you only have enough money to pay either your rent or feed your kids, obviously you feed your kids first. Dumb arse.
Sandwich Boi are you having a laugh? Muppet
Heather Davis I like the muppets good film I recommend
jimmy s also could u teach me to restore my boat pls mine abit broken
@@Megusta6767 sorry but you can't teach someone so stupid. Try a day centre.
Can you please do a follow up on this BBC. I'm very interested in the outcomes of these people in 2022.
Riot/ revolution lets get out on the streets and take back whats ours people!!!!!
What, exactly, is yours to take back? All I see is a lot of complaining that you are not getting as much of what has been taken from somebody else as you want.
Ellioy Oneill absolutely
If the government wants a war with the people they will get it spread this message.
Guns are not my thing much especially with all the shootings u know.
@@jamesnorris7047 were was all this boldness when it was time not to vote these people in office?
This is I Daniel Blake all over again screwing everyone over
Really feel for all these people , have been in this situation myself & almost served a notice . UC really does need to pay the rent directly to Landlords , so people aren’t served with an eviction notice 😞
My partner and I. Agree re direct payments but I suspect the issue is high probability of fraud that that would facilitate.
Why can’t people be responsible?
The system has failed a lot of
Hard working people. !!!
It's even worse if your self employed & a single parent, they don't even meet you basic rate of council tax and rent Ever
My partner is a disabled war veteran that suffers from Ptsd and was forced to quit his job due to his disability. We as a couple get £906 as a couple and our private rent is £650 which leaves us £256 to pay all other bills and eat.... We are ruined... serve your country for 10 years cripple yourself and get chucked in the gutter by that government you protected with your life.
people are literally dying because of this
Tories: "the system is working just fine"
Of it is working this was the intension from day one
that's just the way the Torys like it
Labor we need more migrants and black trans women of color are the real victims in all of this
I think it would have been beneficial to do a systematic breakdown of the impact of sanctions, late payments, etc. for one of the people interviewed. I think that would remove what sounds a little like judgement about recipients’ ability to manage their money. If they are having to borrow to cover a gap when the rent money comes in they are so far behind (and it might not be enough to cover even current rent anyway) they will have to catch up on food, etc.
Stop evicting people plssssssssssss 💔😞😢😢😢
It's all done by design. The result they got is the result they want!!!
Governments are owned by big business. They are determined that the rich will get richer and the poor will suffer. Adequate housing food clothing and medicine are basic human rights. Time to take the power from the rich and make society balanced. There is enough resources for everyone to have a decent life. The greed of the corporations is what makes this impossible.
I am confused.... If Universal Credit gives the recipient enough money to pay his/her rent, then why is the recipient not paying the rent regardless of any other obligations??? Anyone who wants to keep a roof over his/her head and does not own his/her own home, then s/he has to forward the rent amount to the landlord. You do not have the option of keeping the amount of the rent for any other reason. What am I missing here????
One of the biggest issues for me and others on benefit is having to pay council tax. In the 90s when I was unemployed, you used to get a letter telling you that your jsa, housing and council tax benefit was the MINIMUM you could live off according to the law. Then they changed the way that the benefits went up with inflation. That knocked off a potential £10 increase or more to some people. To top it off now I amd others on JSA are expected to find over £200 out of our £73.10 or £3801.20 which then brings the weekly amount down to £68.29.
Don't feed the kids...pay the rent...Sure children can go 28 days without food?
lol I know this is absurd
I dont agree that just because you have a child and decide not to work, that you should be on benefits. There are other options. He should be allowed to work with a benefit or if he does work full time, the government should offer free childcare.
If that could be offered then i would agree but its hard to get work thats what you dont understand
That would be perfect, but is not the reality unfortunately. Try to find a job if you have a baby and don’t have your mother or someone in your family who could look after the baby for free. Childcare cost a fortune
Dont have a baby you cant afford
@@jimconnolly4106 so we have kids way before universal credit then they reduce all that money so how is it their fault? Its the dwp fault that parents on universal credit cant afford to keep their kids so less of the criticism please
Your having kids on benefits whether it changed over or not kids grow up poor like i did, if you was working then lost you job i could understand, women have been getting pregnant to get a flat for ever, maybe not you but some people keep popping out kids with different men and expect to be looked after without ever attempting to work,bring up poor kids who end up turning to the street, this is why cities are becoming more violent, entitled nation
That man needs assisted living program where someone can advocate for him.
Best of luck to Anita and Richard and their family, wish people would stop judging these families there doing there best in difficult times not everybody has computer skills and even the people working there have difficulties learning the system, I don't see anybody that's lazy just good honest people getting by, some of the comments left on this page is what's wrong with the U.K. The working class have been divided.
I think rent should be paid direct to the landlord. Like it or not , there are just some people who just cant cope. You would think that if you dont work and you ve got nothing else to do , and you want state handouts, that you could at least turn up for the appointment on time. but no, there are a group of people who cant do it. So do we punish them for being useless or just recognise that they need help.
@Jeremiah Liggins Ofcourse thats what I was saying. Pay the landlord direct then no one gets into arrears, or kicked out.
Useless eaters 😂😂😂😂
They don't want to pay the lordlord directly because they will see just how little people have left to live on.
It sucks to live in the UK! Unless you have money
Just matter of time before food riots and crime rates all time high.
Anthony my heart goes out to you and others who are generally trying to get by. I've been through what you have and I'm working. Stay strong Anthony and the massive others in this country. A disgustingly inhuman system to F😲😩K us over.
Yes but in a way Anthony has not complied by missing appointments and not paying rent if he needed help with forms he could get help instead of putting his head in the sand
Stop playing the victim. Anthony, and others, can do a great deal more to help themselves. Universal Credit needed 'tweaking' at the very least.
Anthony not paying his rent but sitting smoking
Seems to me in many cases it is not the fault of the system but rather people who cannot manage themselves big surprise there
The council evict people to help them later 😂