HOW is it that somebody who is working at three jobs a week has to use a foodbank? (Echo, March 16). Reading about Tanya Lawson and her struggle to survive while working and on universal credit,

I feel that this system is so unfair and surely can be simplified in this day and age.

I also think it is too easy to sanction people when they rely on a system which is so complicated and operated only by the government, who created it to save money.

Why is it that people who are on universal credit feel intimidated and forced into debt? I am sure anybody working who had to wait six to 12 weeks for their pay would not be at all happy.

I only hope that Thrive Teesside are successful in bringing about change to universal credit and fully support their campaign to do so.

Dave Bowes, West Auckland