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In this episode, Niki tells us how the DWP closed her universal credit claim without any warning at all. They just shut it and that was that. Niki has a 7 year old SEND son who also has autism.

Niki a…

In this episode, we look at Liz Kendall's proposed so-called Pathways to Work programme. 

Liz Kendall plans to spend £1bn to bring councils, jobcentres, voluntary groups and private back to work compa…

In this episode, Megi talks about: 

• the effects that caring for a profoundly disabled autistic child has on mental health
• how difficult it is to get and live on benefits and how that destroys mental he…

In this episode, we return to deeply unpleasant DWP secretary of state Liz Kendall and her plans to cut disability benefits. 

Liz Kendall claims that disabled people who are most in need (whatever tha…

In this episode, we take a look at: 

• Political attacks on sick and disabled people in the last 10 years
• Claims that benefit money is easy to get when it is categorically not
• Liz Kendall's stunning lack …

Labour minister Liz Kendall is secretary of state for the department of work and pensions. 

Liz is not an original thinker. 

Like all her Tory predecessors, Liz wants to cut benefit and support money f…

Anna tells her story in this episode.

It's the story of how Anna, her partner and their 2 sons had to leave their council flat because their neighbour, who likes to wield a knife, was threatening to k…

In this episode, Megi talks about Hackney council forwarding another family's very personal information to her husband's email address. 

Megi has an autistic daughter. She talked about the family's ho…

In this episode, we return to Latoya. 

Latoya was featured in the first episode of this podcast. 

She has an incredibly active 7-year-old autistic son who runs, climbs to incredible heights, barely sle…

In this interlude episode, I ring (and record) letting agents to ask if they accept people who pay rent with benefits like universal credit.

You'll hear what the letting agents say.

It is actually unla…

Megi has an 8 year old daughter with autism. 

Megi talks about her daughter and the family's housing issues in this episode. 

She also takes us on a rollercoaster ride (some cracking downhill bits) thr…

Total circus here.

Niki talks about the 2.5 years it took to get on the Hackney council housing waiting list.

She has a 6 year old son who is autistic. He attends a SEND school in Hackney.

The family…

Millennium politicians like to say that getting benefits, housing and support is too easy for too many people.
 
Au contraire.
 
In this episode, Niki talks about the ways that trying to get that help …

The podcast heads to Hackney council to ask to speak to someone about Latoya's desperation for a swap to a home when her son won't get injured.

The council shows this podcast the door - though we abso…

Latoya is the mother of a 7 year old boy who has autism.

The boy is heading for calamity in the family's present home, which everyone who sees him, including professionals, understands within five mi…