after having to rely on food banks to feed her children because of the way the Department for Work and Pensions assess earnings.
But because she was paid every four weeks instead of monthly, on paper she wasn’t working enough hours and she saw her benefits reduced by as much as £463 a month as a result.The Child Poverty Action Group, who supported the case, estimates that as many as 166,000 other claimants could find themselves in a similar position.Sharon Pantellerisco took a case to the High Court
The judge said the impact of the regulations ‘discourages work when the work available is paid on a lunar month basis’, adding: ‘In such cases, for the majority of months the regulations subject the first claimant to the benefit cap as if she were not working, resulting in her receiving an arbitrarily reduced overall UC award.
He said there seems to be ‘a number of obvious disadvantages in the operation of the present arrangement’, pointing out that in 11 out of 12 assessment periods the regulations ‘treat her as having earned less income for that period than is in fact the case, because of the dates on which she was paid’.
Theyve made some irrational decisions in my case too left my fam fucked. Where do u start in order to put it right?