I’m a mum of two who gets a monthly £1.7k Universal Credit payday people hate me as they work 40 hour weeks for the same

A MOTHER entitled to Universal Credit has sparked backlash online for showing however overmuch wealth she is handed each month.

Laurell Sims posted a video from her TikTok relationship @laurellamy breaking down the monthly £1,700 she is fixed by the government.

Viewers were near fuming implicit the "shocking" and "frustrating" outgo - and labelled her "smug".

Standing successful beforehand of a screenshot of her monthly recognition letter, Laurell told viewers: "This is however overmuch I get arsenic a mum-of-two connected Universal Credit.

"That's £1,717, astir £800 - £900 of that is my rent."

Laurell explained that the money for her rent gets paid straight to her landlord, alternatively of going done her account.

She told viewers: "I've ever had it similar that due to the fact that I wouldn't spot [myself] having that money."

Laurell past gets a acceptable magnitude for being a genitor to 2 children - her girl Delara (6) and lad Jayden (8).

On apical of that, she's dished retired a further acceptable magnitude for herself, "basically a modular allowance."

Aware that her video was apt to ruffle immoderate feathers, Laurell said: "Now, earlier anyone comes to me, this is what they determine that I'm entitled to."

She besides clarified that she is presently connected a authorisation for 2 months, meaning her payments person been deducted implicit this period.

In different video, she explained she had been handed the authorisation for arriving precocious to a Universal Credit appointment.

Without the sanction, Laurell said she "doesn't conflict arsenic much" - she's hoping it volition beryllium lifted arsenic she has present appealed it, which would mean she tin spell backmost to receiving the afloat £1,717.

Viewers successful the comments were shocked astatine however overmuch she was being given.

One idiosyncratic wrote: "The strategy is simply a joke!"

Someone other said: "My spouse gets that moving 40 hours a week."

To which Laurell replied: "Good for him."

Another idiosyncratic said: "This is an implicit joke. People enactment hard and taxes are taken disconnected for radical not moving and being smug…there should beryllium enactment for families who enactment too"

Laurell wrote back: "Being smug? I was moving lone a twelvemonth agone and my circumstances person changed. Try being a nicer quality being."

While different idiosyncratic benefiting from Universal Credit wrote: "I get £2760 a period for 2 kids, acknowledgment taxpayers."

And idiosyncratic other chimed in: "They perceive cosmopolitan recognition and spell consecutive to abuse. I enactment and get cosmopolitan recognition arsenic enactment for my baby. Sometimes radical genuinely usage it arsenic a apical up."