There is a reason for the photo and a full explanation on my blog post http://womensvoicestobeheard.blogspot.com/2018/06/dwp-drops-support-again.html I have always been a caring person yet the system is failing to care for me in my time of need! Trying to get some financial dignity is becoming impossible. But I do not give up I am my mothers daughter and I will find a way somehow. I was supposed to receive the reduced ESA payment yesterday but it was not there in my bank... it has taken 2 days to get through to the DWP.. phone lines bumped me off 4 xs yesterday then 5th time on hold and no customer service agent. Today laid on bed with the classical music hold for hour and then got a kindly agent answer. I feel that the agents are frustrated with the system as much as the claimants. I am in a cusp of waiting for the Work Capability assessment report - I attended that last Wednesday in West Ealing. A lovely staff nurse from Charring Cross did the assessment. We were both agreeing if I had been in a fixed NHS contract when all this happened with Amine breaking my arm then leaving me after his ILR then I would have had the support of the NHS occ health, the right to 6 months sick with full pay & thereafter half pay and helped back into some part time hours and then maybe full time hours if I could... but I was in Zero hours contract being agency.. so no work no pay! I have not been a wimp, but women do have to go through some horrid pain of depression, need to detox from the ugliness of violence upon them... and to do all this with limited funds or drops in support is difficult and can exacerbate the pain not help. The present system can lead to the risk of suicide from the drops in support and the depression. It feels like the system becomes your perpetrator battering you deeper and deeper into poverty and the feeling of being a non person. Last week not only did I have to touch all the past pain in a 2 hours assessment for the DWP but then unprepared unannounced the E.ON collectors came to me on the next day. I have been trying to get E.ON to work with me and get some package of support together for women survivors of domestic violence. I have a ever increasing bill to pay with no funds to pay it. Other bills and food and clothing I need too pay too. I try so hard. But have no £$£$ assets to help me! I have volunteer hours with a British NGO one day a week that I can build my portfolio with and follow staff training programmes and it may lead to some paid work. But the agent for the DWP says volunteer work is not accepted by the DWP for JSA as it is thought if you can do volunteer work you must find paid work... but I am 64yrs and paid work is not being offered me only volunteer work..... Even today I dropped into my local hospital to see if I can help with teaching - but the education department say there is no funding to offer me as a visitor lecturer or some part time teaching. They could only offer me volunteer teaching... which I suppose I could earn from writing up articles about... But then I have been trying to get some work in publication... read more on Women's Voices to be Heard blog. Last week was good to share the train in to Paddington with John McDonnell so we were able to update on my campaign... he does keep updated... So please keep promoting this petition to raise the need to radically reform the DWP to support women survivors better..... women's lives are being put at risk with either return to perpetrator and next beating be her murder or her committing suicide with depression... I turn my pain into campaign as I need to improve support for women survivors... Please help me get the attention of our woman PM Theresa May as up to now she fails to see and acknowledge this campaign... despite all her promises to put funding into helping women! if you have read my blog post you will see that the photo represents some of my knowledge base ... and all I can teach to others.... I will keep strong and keep going for all women aside me, behind me and afore me still struggling to heal and rebuild their lives. Thanks Marjorie