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Thank you for all the kind offers of help. I've worried myself wakeful all night with this; I must pay off this overdraft, the interest is crippling me, and the thought of scraping by on a disabled person's money minus ÂŁ140 has been hanging over me with pure dread. https://twitter.com/KateVasey/status/1297163467934306310
Tbh the worst part has been that if I lent a friend money from this overdraft, which I've sometimes had to for a taxi to the hospital or suchlike, either it would cost me money or I'd have to ask them to pay it. I felt like a despicable loan shark, as bad as a bank.
It's like having your leg stuck in a gin trap. I hate it and I always have; I've never had a mortgage or a credit card, never taken out a loan or bought on credit, and only reluctantly asked for an overdraft while I was waiting for my PIP tribunal and basically starving.
As I said, I lay awake thinking of this last night, wrote threads in my head raging about the greed of "ethical" building societies and taxes on the poor; this is such a small amount of money, really, yet it's the difference between scraping by and sinking for us at the bottom.
It would be such a relief to pay this off, and I'm very grateful for the offers of help and solidarity. Unfortunately, I can't work out how to post a link to my PayPal. I'm not joking about being tired, and it's been so long since I logged in to it I can't make any sense of it.
I've only used it to send money before, but Google says that an email address is enough, so here is mine: kate.vasey@gmail.com. Thanks to everyone who DM'd me; I could read but not answer last night on my phone, I can't see to type on that tiny screen,
And this thread has taken me so long I'm going to have to rest my eyes for an hour before replying. Thanks again for your kindness and solidarity, it means so much.
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