{"id":6467,"date":"2021-01-09T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jan\/09\/families-who-took-on-unjust-benefits-decisions"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T08:30:16","slug":"ive-tried-to-do-this-for-my-kids-families-who-took-on-unjust-benefits-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/09\/ive-tried-to-do-this-for-my-kids-families-who-took-on-unjust-benefits-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I\u2019ve tried to do this for my kids&#8217;: families who took on unjust benefits decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest report for the 2020 Guardian and Observer appeal, we talk to Child Poverty Action Group and those it has helped<\/p><p><strong>\u2022 Please donate to our appeal <a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ctdonate.org\/?utm_source=gdnwb&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=Marketing_CharityAppeal_1119&amp;CMP_TU=editorial&amp;CMP_BUNIT=edtrl\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>When Trudi and Gavin Scott moved back to the UK from New Zealand with their severely disabled son, Theo, in December 2016, it was the start of a \u201chorrendous\u201d few years of financial struggle triggered by the family being refused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/disability-living-allowance-children\">disability living allowance<\/a>.<\/p><p>At one point, when Gavin had to give up work to look after Theo while Trudi was recovering from a major operation, they had to scrape by on child benefit, tax credit cash and food bank vouchers, causing them to fall behind with bills.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jan\/09\/families-who-took-on-unjust-benefits-decisions\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jan\/09\/families-who-took-on-unjust-benefits-decisions\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest report for the 2020 Guardian and Observer appeal, we talk to Child Poverty Action Group and those it has helped\u2022 Please donate to our appeal hereWhen Trudi and Gavin Scott moved back to the UK from New Zealand with their severely disabled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549,1706,1707,6,640,34,520,1708],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}