Helen Undy
@helenundy.bsky.social
Chief Exec @moneyandmentalhealth.org - tweeting in a personal capacity about mental health, money and matrescence, mostly. (She/her)
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Great news! 🎉
The government is consulting on changing the council tax system to make it fairer - including giving people more time between missing a payment and having to pay their full annual bill.
This is a big win for our Council Tax Trap campaign with
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com.
The government is consulting on changing the council tax system to make it fairer - including giving people more time between missing a payment and having to pay their full annual bill.
This is a big win for our Council Tax Trap campaign with
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com.
Brilliant news. I'm quite emotional. Govt has agreed to investigate Council Tax rapid debt collection escalation that is catastrophic for millions. Miss one MONTH'S payment and within six weeks you can have baliffs forcing you to pay for the YEAR plus £100s admin charges.
Martin Lewis reacts to campaign win on changing "hideous Council Tax debt collection processes"
YouTube video by MoneySavingExpert.com
youtu.be
May 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Great news! 🎉
The government is consulting on changing the council tax system to make it fairer - including giving people more time between missing a payment and having to pay their full annual bill.
This is a big win for our Council Tax Trap campaign with
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com.
The government is consulting on changing the council tax system to make it fairer - including giving people more time between missing a payment and having to pay their full annual bill.
This is a big win for our Council Tax Trap campaign with
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com.
For someone living with severe mental illness, cutting off their phone & broadband means losing access to mental health crisis support, their Universal Credit account & contact family who are often the ones who keep us safe.
Yet that's exactly what our new Money and Mental Health research exposed.
Yet that's exactly what our new Money and Mental Health research exposed.
April 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
For someone living with severe mental illness, cutting off their phone & broadband means losing access to mental health crisis support, their Universal Credit account & contact family who are often the ones who keep us safe.
Yet that's exactly what our new Money and Mental Health research exposed.
Yet that's exactly what our new Money and Mental Health research exposed.
Today's spring statement has left me feeling angry. The changes will drive an extra 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children. 96% of households who lose financially contain someone with a disability. We need to balance the books, but not at the expense of the most vulnerable people.
Today’s announcements in the #SpringStatement are another hammer blow for people who are struggling with their mental health and finances.
We urge the government to reverse course.
Read our Chief Executive @helenundy.bsky.social’s response in full 👇
🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/press-releas...
We urge the government to reverse course.
Read our Chief Executive @helenundy.bsky.social’s response in full 👇
🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/press-releas...
March 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Today's spring statement has left me feeling angry. The changes will drive an extra 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children. 96% of households who lose financially contain someone with a disability. We need to balance the books, but not at the expense of the most vulnerable people.
Reposted by Helen Undy
Today the Financial Conduct Authority published its review of firms’ treatment of customers in vulnerable circumstances. A quick 🧵 on the findings and our some of our reaction/thoughts at @moneyandmentalhealth.org
March 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today the Financial Conduct Authority published its review of firms’ treatment of customers in vulnerable circumstances. A quick 🧵 on the findings and our some of our reaction/thoughts at @moneyandmentalhealth.org
Great profile of our work & Martin Lewis' vision for the charity in The Guardian - including our supercomplainant status announcement. Delighted to hear we're apparently entering the 'top tier' of consumer organisations!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘We have to protect people’: Martin Lewis on his fight to stop money worries worsening mental health
The money-saving expert’s charity has changed policies – and is now gearing up to take on regulators and insurers
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Great profile of our work & Martin Lewis' vision for the charity in The Guardian - including our supercomplainant status announcement. Delighted to hear we're apparently entering the 'top tier' of consumer organisations!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's a REALLY big day at Money and Mental Health 🎉🎉🎉
We have some VERY exciting news to share! 🎉
Today the government has recommended we should be given ‘super-complainant’ status, giving us special powers to call on regulators to tackle specific consumer harms.
@helenundy.bsky.social explains why we’re thrilled with this change 🎬
Today the government has recommended we should be given ‘super-complainant’ status, giving us special powers to call on regulators to tackle specific consumer harms.
@helenundy.bsky.social explains why we’re thrilled with this change 🎬
February 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's a REALLY big day at Money and Mental Health 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks @charlotteajohn.bsky.social & @liam-hill.bsky.social for putting me on the spot - but I completed the challenge with seven seconds to spare! 💪 🕐 🎉
We set our Chief Executive @helenundy.bsky.social a little challenge - to introduce us, our work and our impact to our new followers in under 60 seconds. ⌚
We think Helen did great! Find out more about us, our work and what we’ve achieved so far on our website.
🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org
We think Helen did great! Find out more about us, our work and what we’ve achieved so far on our website.
🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org
February 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thanks @charlotteajohn.bsky.social & @liam-hill.bsky.social for putting me on the spot - but I completed the challenge with seven seconds to spare! 💪 🕐 🎉
Please join me in welcoming @moneyandmentalhealth.org to Bluesky! Help us get started by giving us a follow and a share! 💪🏼
Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you 🙏🏼
Hey Bluesky 👋
We’re here now - please give us a follow! 🦋
If you’re familiar with our work already, great! But if not: we’re a campaigning charity working to break the vicious cycle between mental health problems and financial difficulty 💜
Follow us to find out more!
We’re here now - please give us a follow! 🦋
If you’re familiar with our work already, great! But if not: we’re a campaigning charity working to break the vicious cycle between mental health problems and financial difficulty 💜
Follow us to find out more!
February 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Please join me in welcoming @moneyandmentalhealth.org to Bluesky! Help us get started by giving us a follow and a share! 💪🏼
Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you 🙏🏼
We have another win in the Mental Health Bill! 💥
Last night the Minister commited that there will be an 'explicit requirement' to offer access to the Mental Health Breathing Space scheme - giving more people respite from debt fees, charges and collection activity.
www.linkedin.com/videos/urn:l...
Last night the Minister commited that there will be an 'explicit requirement' to offer access to the Mental Health Breathing Space scheme - giving more people respite from debt fees, charges and collection activity.
www.linkedin.com/videos/urn:l...
Money and Mental Health on LinkedIn: Highlights from Mental Health Bill debate in the House of Lords -…
We have some more good news to share on the Mental Health Bill! 🎉
Yesterday in the UK House of Lords, Baron Davies of Brixton proposed an amendment to the…
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February 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We have another win in the Mental Health Bill! 💥
Last night the Minister commited that there will be an 'explicit requirement' to offer access to the Mental Health Breathing Space scheme - giving more people respite from debt fees, charges and collection activity.
www.linkedin.com/videos/urn:l...
Last night the Minister commited that there will be an 'explicit requirement' to offer access to the Mental Health Breathing Space scheme - giving more people respite from debt fees, charges and collection activity.
www.linkedin.com/videos/urn:l...
Enjoyed speaking at today's @citizensadvice.bsky.social data insights event on debt alongside the always impressive @tommacinnes.bsky.social - even if it is rather terrifying when over 1,000 people turn up to watch! You can catch up here: app.sli.do/event/1gjb6p...
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February 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Enjoyed speaking at today's @citizensadvice.bsky.social data insights event on debt alongside the always impressive @tommacinnes.bsky.social - even if it is rather terrifying when over 1,000 people turn up to watch! You can catch up here: app.sli.do/event/1gjb6p...
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Just had a Treasury meet with Tulip Siddiq on behalf of my Money & Mental Health Policy Institute charity to discuss potential unfair treatment of people with mental health problems when getting insurance (eg travel) + needed change to debt collection practices which damage mental health
December 4, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Just had a Treasury meet with Tulip Siddiq on behalf of my Money & Mental Health Policy Institute charity to discuss potential unfair treatment of people with mental health problems when getting insurance (eg travel) + needed change to debt collection practices which damage mental health
I spent a couple of years working at Relate and was struck by the transformative impact their services have. Few things are as important to our mental health as our relationships, and few other organisations know how to help with that like Relate does.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Counselling charity Relate goes into administration
Charity on verge of insolvency amid collapse in funding from NHS, school and local authority contracts
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I spent a couple of years working at Relate and was struck by the transformative impact their services have. Few things are as important to our mental health as our relationships, and few other organisations know how to help with that like Relate does.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
This evening I was lucky enough to have dinner with a group of mental health leaders (thank you @mirandawolpert.bsky.social) - & realised that we're not connected on here. So I got a 'mental health leaders' starter pack going: go.bsky.app/DqTaxQj - please do tell me all the great people I've missed!
November 27, 2024 at 10:29 PM
This evening I was lucky enough to have dinner with a group of mental health leaders (thank you @mirandawolpert.bsky.social) - & realised that we're not connected on here. So I got a 'mental health leaders' starter pack going: go.bsky.app/DqTaxQj - please do tell me all the great people I've missed!
Reposted by Helen Undy
I’ve one clear memory of John Prescott making a difference when I was working in DWP in the 2000s
No 10 was heavily briefing a scheme to dock housing benefit for anti-social behaviour
He refused to sign up to it & killed it on basis “you can’t have a punishment that’s only for the poor”
No 10 was heavily briefing a scheme to dock housing benefit for anti-social behaviour
He refused to sign up to it & killed it on basis “you can’t have a punishment that’s only for the poor”
November 21, 2024 at 8:30 AM
I’ve one clear memory of John Prescott making a difference when I was working in DWP in the 2000s
No 10 was heavily briefing a scheme to dock housing benefit for anti-social behaviour
He refused to sign up to it & killed it on basis “you can’t have a punishment that’s only for the poor”
No 10 was heavily briefing a scheme to dock housing benefit for anti-social behaviour
He refused to sign up to it & killed it on basis “you can’t have a punishment that’s only for the poor”
Looking forward to spending today with a couple of our funders. First with @impurbanhealth.bsky.social discussing our exciting plans for next year. Then joining the Aviva Foundation learning day to present on the potential for data sharing to support people with mental health problems.
November 21, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Looking forward to spending today with a couple of our funders. First with @impurbanhealth.bsky.social discussing our exciting plans for next year. Then joining the Aviva Foundation learning day to present on the potential for data sharing to support people with mental health problems.
And to intro our latest work - no one explains it better than @martinlewismse.bsky.social
Within 3 weeks of missing a council tax payment you can be billed for the whole year. Within 6 weeks - bailiffs at your door. Credit card providers aren't allowed to act so aggressively, why is your council?
Within 3 weeks of missing a council tax payment you can be billed for the whole year. Within 6 weeks - bailiffs at your door. Credit card providers aren't allowed to act so aggressively, why is your council?
Miss one Council Tax monthly payment and within 3wks they can make you pay for the whole year!
My response are listening to a case study who's finances were wrecked by this.
youtu.be/0A3hLVLePQA
My response are listening to a case study who's finances were wrecked by this.
youtu.be/0A3hLVLePQA
Martin Lewis: Miss one Council Tax payment and within 3wks they can make you pay for the whole year!
YouTube video by MoneySavingExpert.com
youtu.be
November 19, 2024 at 8:49 AM
And to intro our latest work - no one explains it better than @martinlewismse.bsky.social
Within 3 weeks of missing a council tax payment you can be billed for the whole year. Within 6 weeks - bailiffs at your door. Credit card providers aren't allowed to act so aggressively, why is your council?
Within 3 weeks of missing a council tax payment you can be billed for the whole year. Within 6 weeks - bailiffs at your door. Credit card providers aren't allowed to act so aggressively, why is your council?
Morning all. No snow in this part of London. Very much just extra cold rain. Promise I will get onto the work content soon. But thought I'd say hello first... 👋🏼
November 19, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Morning all. No snow in this part of London. Very much just extra cold rain. Promise I will get onto the work content soon. But thought I'd say hello first... 👋🏼
Right. So far Bluesky for me is all people in charities posting about their latest consultancy gig, and artsy soft focus pictures of the moon / forests. A cross between LinkedIn and Microsoft desktop backgrounds from the 90s. I'm not sure I nailed my starter pack selections tbh.
November 18, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Right. So far Bluesky for me is all people in charities posting about their latest consultancy gig, and artsy soft focus pictures of the moon / forests. A cross between LinkedIn and Microsoft desktop backgrounds from the 90s. I'm not sure I nailed my starter pack selections tbh.