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❄️ Winter
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Georgie O
26 March 2021
I haven't been managing this no cost over winter doing covid. I'm lucky and I get the extra hundred and forty pounds winter payment, but we just don't have the heating on simple as that...
❄️ Winter
🍳 Getting by
Alex R
06 April 2021
More snow. Minus 3 this morning...
❄️ Winter
Utilities
Alex R
05 April 2021
Minus 2 snow blowing sideways its April back to stressing about putting the heating on.undefined...
❄️ Winter
🍳 Getting by
Utilities
Erik N
21 March 2021
From my energy provider I applied for some Grant's which accepted and adjusted now with my monthly bill....
❄️ Winter
Alex R
14 February 2021
Snow is slowly melting. Rain and a strong wind keeping us indoors...
🍞 Food / food banks
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🧒 Children
❄️ Winter
Alex R
08 February 2021
Relieved that school is closed due to Covid. Thick snow and my daughter doesn't have waterproof boots to walk in it...
❄️ Winter
Alex R
10 January 2021
Temperatures have risen again to highs of 6°. Snow has melted but no sign cold weather payment from the DWP as mentioned in media after a week of freezing temps...
❄️ Winter
Utilities
Nellie K
09 January 2021
We’re really struggling. I’ve just changed my energy supplier purely so I can apply for a Warm Homes Discount...
Utilities
❄️ Winter
⛑ Support
Trisha A
08 January 2021
This is certainly a most trying moment, with the latest lockdown in NI just as we were expecting children to be back in school. With children in school there's a little ease on expenses, I can live on one meal a day but with kids home there's more consumption of basically everything and this means that I will continue to stretch the budget further...
🍞 Food / food banks
❄️ Winter
🍳 Getting by
🧒 Children
Children's wellbeing
Alex R
07 January 2021
Minus 15 tonight according to weather forecast. No offer of extra payments to cover costs of heating which was offered in 1st lockdown...
❄️ Winter
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