The Cost of Survival

By Forgotten Rights

Survival isn’t free. And when the system is against you, it costs everything—your money, your health, your dignity, and sometimes your life.

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The Daily Toll

• Energy bills that eat up more than half your benefits.
• Food prices that climb while your payments stay frozen.
• Medical costs—travel to hospital, prescriptions, equipment—not covered by the NHS.
• Debt traps—because sometimes you have to choose between taking out a loan or not eating.

This isn’t “mismanagement.” It’s what happens when a system is designed to keep you just alive enough to be invisible, but never secure enough to breathe.

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The Emotional Price

• Constant anxiety about the next bill, the next letter, the next DWP appointment.
• Shame drilled into you by politicians and the press until you start to believe it yourself.
• Friendships and family ties strained because they’ve been fed the “scrounger” story too.

Survival becomes a full-time job—and there’s no annual leave.

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Why This Is Deliberate

Keeping you exhausted means keeping you compliant.
If you’re too busy worrying about keeping the lights on, you don’t have the time or energy to organise, protest, or fight back.

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The Truth They Don’t Want Told

The cost of survival is not just counted in pounds and pence—it’s counted in broken health, lost years, and lives cut short.
This isn’t just unfair. It’s an outrage.

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What You Can Do

✅ Share this post—because silence is what keeps them in power.
✅ Support food banks, disability justice groups, and grassroots campaigns.
✅ Support Forgotten Rights via [Ko-fi], [Patreon], or donations—because we’re here to make sure they can’t bury the truth.

They call it “support.” We call it barely keeping us breathing.

Next week: “The Human Rights Crisis No One Admits” – Why disability rights in the UK are being quietly dismantled.

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