get paid till friday. i have now got to hope that £9 sees me till then. and, until she is paid, holly cannot afford to use the washing machine. so it s. this is my washing pile. i am not going to wash it till friday. it is one of the things i will put aside just to make sure that £9 sees me through. and all this coincides with the ending of the £20 a week uplift to universal credit that was introduced in the pandemic. the choices now are. i ve looked and thought, 0k, my daughter is going to have this for tea, but i will eat later, or i willjust have a sandwich. it is sacrifices i have made. and i m not ashamed. but we shouldn t live like it. no one should live like it. the government argues that as the economy opens up,