Erik W

After receiving a migration notice saying I was being moved from legacy benefits to Universal Credit, I did as much research as possible, it seemed that there were things in place to ensure I would not be worse off apart from the initial assessment period which has been a real struggle for myself and my daughter. I have now received a notification of my payments. Despite being unable to work due to ill health and spending the last eight or so years bringing up my daughter on nothing but a single persons legacy benefits and child benefit, I will now be around £300 a month worse off before taking into account that the child benefit for my daughter has now also stopped. How can this be acceptable to push people further into destitution, that are unable to work through no fault of their own in a society where the poorest are already struggling to survive. I feel worthless not only as a human being but also as a parent to my daughter, left feeling outcast and forgotten by a government that would insist that we are all equally treated.