UNPACKING her suitcase from her recent trip to Morrocco, Erica Cartier, 44, was already dreaming up her next luxury holiday.Erica has written for The Sun on several occasions about her love of lavish holidays, designer make-up and Champagne, despite being on benefits.Erica Cartier says her life was greatly improved by going on benefitsErica says that being a jet-setter is a ‘state of mind’She says being on UC doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy nice holidaysHere she explains why she’s nobody’s ‘poverty porn’.
..Imagine my dismay when some bleeding heart boffin trolled me online in a series of tweets for being able to afford nice holidays.
The academic assumed that because I have a disability I couldn’t possibly speak for myself in a national newspaper – she even suggested I’d been ‘stitched up’ by The Sun.It’s hardly the case. I spent my late teens to early twenties cutting my teeth on the fashion desk of a broadsheet and went on to gain a degree in journalism from the London College of Printing.
I’ve since written for most national, and quality international, newspapers. More recently, I graduated with a master’s degree in creative writing.It’s only what I’ve heard from trolls before when writing publicly about going on holiday while in receipt of Universal Credit and PIP – £1,100 a month combined at the moment.
Despite what my trolls say, I’m not a benefits cheat or a fraudster and I deserve every penny I get.My benefits are broken into categ.
