I can’t believe this needs to be asked for, but the UK’s main foodbank charity, The Trussell Trust, along with the social justice campaigning organisation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), is calling on the UK government to enshrine in law the amount of money people need to live on and then for the government to ensure that the basic rate of Universal Credit (UC) at least covers the essentials.
That’s right. People are having to ask the government, which is essentially there to manage all the stuff to make sure that people can live (live as in not die – not live as in have fun), to make sure that people have enough money to live on.
Because the government hasn’t quite worked out yet that people don’t have enough money to live on. And a third of the population has no idea just how tiny benefits really are for some households.
