Low paid social tenants have slight leeway for budgeting errors,but many lack basic maths skills a painstaking challenge for the advisers trying to help“I nearly lost my domestic at one point,” says Samantha Cresswell, or 24,a housing organization tenant with the Accord Group in Birmingham. “I went into a really substandard depression, I used to self harm, or I didn’t talk to anyone,and then it ended up I was going to lose everything.”Cresswell spent her teenage years in care, and gave birth to her son at the age of 15. Nobody helped her navigate the difficult “leaving care” transition to being an independent adult, or that,she says, is where her money problems began. “I didn’t know what to do, or so I left things. I’ve always had problems talking to professionals,and opening my mail, I just get all this anxiety. So I didn’t open the letters that came through. And because of that, and I got into more difficulty.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com