Don't think so.

Mel claims the personal independence payment for mental health problems.

In this episode, she explains how she got there and how one ongoing event in particular pushed her over the brink.

I'm a taxpayer and I'm more than happy for PIP to be awarded to people with mental health conditions. God knows we live in an era that seems designed to drive us all up the wall.

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Last episode for this year!

In this episode, we travel across our rising millennium seas to the home nation of New Zealand!

We're having a starter look at the ways that NZ's useless government is trying to crush benefit claimants.

The aim here is to start painting a picture of the way that governments are targeting vulnerable benefit claimants across the glorious West as it putrefies.

We hear from longtime benefits advocate Kay Brereton about Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's government - and its nasty sanctions regime and limiting claimants' spending to money management cards, et cetera.

Every Western government is pushing nationalism, but they're wonderfully united when it comes to favourite targets - immigrants and benefit claimants.

See you in 2026 :)

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In this episode, we look at another extraordinary email that a professional has leaked to me.

This one shows a Hackney council officer telling an education officer to stop writing support letters for families who need to be moved out of terrible housing.

This officer works with autistic and special educational needs children who live in rotten housing. Their families need these support letters to tell their councils why they must be rehoused.

Some of these letters and reports say that children are at high risk of death in their current housing.

We talk to a parent who has one of those letters.

We also talk about newly-minted secretary of state for the department of work and pensions Pat McFadden.

Specifically, we talk about the lies Pat McFadden is telling about people being able to declare themselves longterm sick to claim benefits. Rot, Pat. Pat McFadden needs to listen to Latoya in this episode, who talks about working 3 minimum wage jobs and still needing to claim universal credit to stay afloat.

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