Wednesday, 17 March 2010

I’ll never know what it’s like…

Whoops! Last week I forgot to deduct a sum for bills and so overspent by about £20. This means I have to deduct money from all the remaining weeks in Lent to make up the shortfall. I have borrowed the money from myself.

Of course, if I was really on benefits then I simply wouldn’t have been able to borrow the money. Or if I had, it would have been from a loan shark charging extortionate rates of interest.

This all makes me more and more aware of the fact that I will never really know what it’s like (I hope!) to live on the poverty line. For me, this is an accounting exercise. The reality must be truly miserable.

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