REPOST: getting really worried about the lack of food aid this month.

Although I won my disability claim, I have no money. They have given me only a tiny fraction of the backpay I’m owed so far, which was taken for debt repayment. They have a backlog with paying backpay (which they pay in instalments anyway). I’ve received my first monthly payment but it’s not a lot and the majority has gone on rent, the rest has been eaten up by interest payments. I’m up to my eyeballs in debt and don’t know how to eat this month.

If anyone can help with the food situation, please send a supermarket gift card to DisabledAceSocialist@hotmail.com

This one takes credit card, debit card and google pay:

https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

This one takes crypto:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

If anyone would like to help but can’t deal with gift cards, please PM me. I have paypal, but usually try to avoid real money unless there’s no alternative because of government bank checks but the situation is dire right now.

The situation for disability claimants accessing food in the UK is really bad, due to benefits being stopped, long waits for backpay and sanctions. This is how bad it is and I don’t want to end up like this:

https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-work-pensions-committee-deaths-suicide-starvation/

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man-dies-in-poverty-and-squalor-after-dwp-removes-his-benefits-just-as-labour-cuts-pip-by-4-5bn/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-pip-benefit-payments-labour-reeves-b2710913.html

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