Sue, 61, from Liverpool, was forced onto the monthly benefit after being made redundant from her job as a nursery cleaner – and desperately tried to get more than 35 hours of work a week to get off Universal Credi
By: Paddy Shennan
A woman struggling on Universal Credit has been forced to take a job cleaning pub toilets – but said she can’t even afford a haircut.
Sue, 61, was forced onto the monthly benefit after being made redundant from her job as a nursery cleaner.ADVERTISING
Desperate to move off Universal Credit, Sue has taken three jobs in order to boost her weekly working hours to 35 a week.
She is now featuring in a new three-part BBC2 series, Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State.
It focuses on claimants in Liverpool’s Toxteth jobcentre, where “work coaches” are thinly-stretched following the closure of two jobcentres and their subsequent merger with Toxteth – where we see a long queue of people when its doors open for business.
Sue needs to be looking to get 35 hours work a week and to regularly attend the job centre, or face having her benefits reduced.
