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Clare Moriarty

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  1. “There's another group of people who we are very worried about. So, again, think about April and the increase. So it's £900 increase in annual energy bills that people will face at that point. People who are just outside the benefit boundary are not going to get the £900 support that the government is providing. Again, these are people who do not have £900 in their budgets to be able to pay for that. And I think that's another of the interesting questions because the government has There's a problem about bridging the gap between universal measures which benefit everybody to the same amount and tend to benefit the rich more than the poor and then things which are very targeted on people with who receive benefits. And the reason that you can do that is because the government has their bank account details and can put money straight into their bank account. Over the course of a year now that we've been talking about cost of living, nothing has been done to try and find ways of supporting people who are”

    2022-11-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Clare Moriarty One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “The benefit system, and there has to be a point when we stand back and say actually the support that people are getting through the welfare state is not intrinsically linked to what they need. If you go right back to beverage, beverage was talking about a minimum standard of living below which people should not fall. And we're not in that position when people are constantly on the edge of crisis and having to be rescued from worse situations.”

    2022-11-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Clare Moriarty One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “So huge numbers of people are going to struggle this winter. People on benefits, people, we're seeing a lot of working people coming to us. The crisis kind of started in April, but it was in the run-up to April, we were all saying there's going to be a big crisis when energy prices go up by 57%. We got to April, and almost as soon as we got there, everybody started worrying about October. But that crisis in April happened. It's working its way through. We are seeing it. We publish every month a cost of living dashboard. We can see what's happening and we are telling people and seeking to get the focus on that. But there's a bigger picture here as well, because even come April, benefits will go up, there will be further support. But the Chancellor's autumn statement announcement was the fifth announcement that we've had on cost of living since February. And there's been since the start of the pandemic, we've seen a series of sticking plasters applied.”

    2022-11-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Clare Moriarty One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Along and tell the stories of the people who are coming to us, so one person who came to us recently, let's call out Annie, a mother with children trying to get into work, terrified of getting into debt, cut back on everything she can cut back on, nothing left, so she's not turning the heating on. And she is eating one meal a day in order to be able to give her kids breakfast. Fortunately, they have free school meals. But sometimes it's the small thing. So she was talking about two of her children have got birthdays. One of them had a birthday yesterday, and she had to choose between buying a carton of milk or buying a birthday card. Son turns 18 tomorrow, and she can't buy him a present, let alone celebrate. And that's the sort of situation that an awful lot of people are in.”

    2022-11-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Clare Moriarty One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Well, if you look at the autumn statement yesterday, there is much in it to welcome, so the government has announced uprating of benefits in line with inflation. That's absolutely critical. They've announced a continuation of the energy price guarantee, albeit at a higher level. And they've announced targeted support for people, particularly on benefit. Those are all good things, but there are two big holes left by the autumn statement announcement. Firstly is this winter. We know because we have huge numbers of people who are coming to us in crisis at the moment, that the cost of in crisis is already happening. And while the support coming in April is welcome, it's just not at all clear how people are going to get through from here until there. We're currently helping two people every minute access crisis support. We're seeing more people than ever before who can't top up prepayment meters. And as you know, I will always come.”

    2022-11-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Clare Moriarty One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Giving advice to people on a huge range of issues. So we're a federated charity. We have 257 local systems of advice, each of which is their own charity, a huge range of different shapes and sizes. The kind of core of system device is that generalist device, anybody can come along and ask for advice. In reality, a lot of what we deal with is benefits, debt, energy at the moment in particular, housing relationships. We also deliver some services at a national scale, so we deliver the consumer service, we deliver help to claim, which is the service for people who are making an initial claim for universal credit. So it is quite a patchwork. It's difficult to sort of sum it up in a few words.”

    2022-11-18 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Clare Moriarty One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source