At least you tried though  .

It's definitely good that posters can share their experiences, but in terms of actual usefulness it would be a lot more help to encourage those who are in immediate need to go straight to the dedicated places where they can get credible, concrete information far quicker, and not faff about on sites that have nothing to do with it but where people with a bit of personal insight and some vague stuff they've picked up along the way can shoot the breeze. We need to guard against letting those people think this is the place to ask, because it isn't.

I would think that most of us have electricity in our homes and at least a few will have had occasional problems with it, but if something keeps tripping all my sockets I'm not going to post on here and ask what's happening with my circuit breaker because that would make me a complete bellend. I'm going to call an electrician

Am not going to bother trying to be helpful next time.

Please do, i found your post positive and helpful as a sex worker making a claim and what you got and how you did it. I have never claimed ever and certainly not in this type of work so you have reassured me and with your tips. Thankyou

Am not going to bother trying to be helpful next time.

Please do, I found it helpful.

Take no notice of the usual poster with the stinking attitude problem 

Take no notice of the usual poster with the stinking attitude problem 

If you believe a post is inappropriate or a poster is causing problems you need to report it GG, rather than make cryptic comments. We all have enough to do here and elsewhere already, and the endless off topic stuff (not to mention some of the jawdropping twattery that is predictably starting to creep into the Seeking/Offering section) is not making it any easier .

Well.if you don't want to report then that's fine (and your personal view on anybody's 'attitude' is no concern of ours anyway) but in that case please try to stick to making useful posts rather than underhanded sniping about others. Although I'm glad whatever it is about the situation that's amusing you, is.

I called universal credit today and had to wait on the phone for quite a while. When I finally got through they told me I have to do a telephone appointment and the earliest they have offered me is 21st April! Has anyone else had to wait 3 weeks for a telephone appointment? It’s bloody crazy, I have bills to pay, I was hoping to get a payment from them a lot sooner than that