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Wowwww. Having to drive lyft or die - sounds like hell.

• DanBC 8y ago
  Conditionality isn't a bad thing. This particular version of conditionality, combined with cuts to housing benefit,combined with the hostile regime around benefits in general, mean people are suffering as a result. Importantly it's not saving any money. It's not having to drive lyft or die. It's about being forced to drive for lyft, and still lose your income, and lose your home. It's not being able to predict your income from one month to the next, which puts you at risk of losing your home because you can't pay rent and the state keeps paying you weird amounts because of the way that benefit works. We've seen huge rises in street homeless numbers. In 2007 we had about 500 people in the UK sleeping on the street. Today that's over 4,000 people. In 2017 over 30,000 single parent families (the kind who should benefit most from the flexibility of zero hours and gig economy) were made homeless.