{"id":10772,"date":"2016-12-07T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:18:14","slug":"lots-of-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10772","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lots of work to do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Karen Debouze (pictured, right), who has used foodbanks, on her experience of having her benefits stopped for five months:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat most people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realise about people whose benefits are stopped is that there are knock-on effects \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost impossible to get back on your feet even after your benefits are reinstated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFor example, I had to go to court to sort out my council tax payments. My credit hit rock bottom during those five months and still hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recovered. My health has deteriorated and my doctor has had to drastically increase my medication.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bPeople \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the government especially \u00e2\u20ac\u201c need to understand what is really going on in this country. They need to stop being selfish and look out for other people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of work to do \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but the change has to start in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>&#8211; Karen Debouze<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Find out how you can support Unite&#8217;s Christmas foodbank appeal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/campaigning\/hope-not-hunger-christmas-appeal-2016\/\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Debouze (pictured, right), who has used foodbanks, on her experience of having her benefits stopped for five months: &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat most people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realise about people whose benefits are stopped is that there are knock-on effects \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost impossible to get back on your feet even after your benefits are reinstated.&#8221; &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bFor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[648,436],"wps_subtitle":"After experience of hunger, Karen urges MPs to act","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}