- He was twenty thousand pounds
- in debt. Payday loans;
- one thousand per cent interest.
- His children told their grandmother
- Santa hadn’t come the year before.
- A single dad, he quit his job in a factory to look after his children, but fell behind with rent
- and with trying to feed and clothe them.
- He had four pounds sixty one pence
- in his account, waiting for the benefit;
- there is an average five-week wait for the first payment.
- He had been served an eviction notice.
- He sat in his car in a quiet country lane,
- crying.
[Metro, 21/07/2019, Dad, 34, took his own life after wait for Universal Credit left him with £4.61; Daily Mirror, 20/07/2019, Single dad with just £4.61 took own life after waiting weeks for Universal Credit]