List of those for whom Welfare Reform and cuts were too much to bear
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
DWP: 'He said: "Suicide is a very complex issue, so it would be wrong to link it solely to someone’s benefit claim.'
The disingenuous cunts. It doesn't get much clearer than someone specifically blaming them for his suicide. And they can't muddy the waters with "prior mental health issues" bullshit, because there was zero evidence of previous mental health referrals. They have blood on their hands over this, and it's inescapable.
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I hope I can get some benefits soon, been out of the country a while - what are my chances?
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Not on this thread you don't.
BCBlues
Lend us a Twenner
What was his name before?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Cunt. Same as this time.
UC was the final nail in his coffin” A debt-ridden single dad with just £4.61 took his own life after waiting weeks for #UniversalCredit http://bit.ly/2Y6MRak Phillip Herron, 34, was behind on rent & repaying £20,000 debts - including payday loans with 1,000% interest.
Single dad with just £4.61 killed himself after 3 week wait for Universal Credit
34, 30 fucking 4, As Lisa Mckenzie says how many more, where are the mobilisations? etc.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Was just coming to post this one. Fucking gut wrenching.
Gaia
Urban's Village Idiot
Benefits row as DWP criticised for refusing payments to dying man DWP criticised over dying man's benefits refusal
According to the article, he was assessed by a paramedic, “who gave him zero points for everything” - I sincerely hope that said paramedic had now been told to find alternative employment.
According to the article, he was assessed by a paramedic, “who gave him zero points for everything” - I sincerely hope that said paramedic had now been told to find alternative employment.
Ayman Habayeb was 28 when he took his own life, he had an autism spectrum disorder and was diagnosed with depression, they still stopped his benefit.
He left a note on his computer that was found by his parents...
“My only income has been employment and support allowance benefits as I am unfit for work. On August 15 2018 the Department for Work and Pensions decided to terminate those benefits. This means I am no longer able to pay rent or afford food.
“I decided that I would not bother fighting this, and will exit instead. I have written this page to explain my decision to friends and to answer anticipated questions.”
He wasn't found for 9 months.
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news...-life-1-9072786/amp?__twitter_impression=true
He left a note on his computer that was found by his parents...
“My only income has been employment and support allowance benefits as I am unfit for work. On August 15 2018 the Department for Work and Pensions decided to terminate those benefits. This means I am no longer able to pay rent or afford food.
“I decided that I would not bother fighting this, and will exit instead. I have written this page to explain my decision to friends and to answer anticipated questions.”
He wasn't found for 9 months.
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news...-life-1-9072786/amp?__twitter_impression=true
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
DWP:Ayman Habayeb was 28 when he took his own life, he had an autism spectrum disorder and was diagnosed with depression, they still stopped his benefit.
He left a note on his computer that was found by his parents...
“My only income has been employment and support allowance benefits as I am unfit for work. On August 15 2018 the Department for Work and Pensions decided to terminate those benefits. This means I am no longer able to pay rent or afford food.
“I decided that I would not bother fighting this, and will exit instead. I have written this page to explain my decision to friends and to answer anticipated questions.”
He wasn't found for 9 months.
Autistic Milton Keynes man left suicide note on computer explaining tragic reasons he took his own life
You lying cunts, DWP.
You patronising, lying cunts, DWP.
This is what they always say when a claimant kills themselves. What a perfect little get-out to excuse themselves with.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Islington historian was found dead in flat after benefits struggle (from Islington Tribune)
A “UNIQUE and creative” historian and museum volunteer had struggled with the benefits system before he was found dead in his flat by his close friend, a coroner’s court heard.
Martin King, 59, was a popular helper at the Islington Museum in Finsbury where he helped curate the LGBTQ archive.
Coroner Graeme Irvine ruled that Mr King had taken his own life in April.
Mr King’s close friend Professor Judith Williamson told the inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court on Wednesday that Mr King was “doing the best to manage but not quite managing” when it came to his finances – “despite living extremely frugally”.
She said: “It’s clear he was struggling financially,” adding that her friend had been “daunted” by the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application to the Department for Work and Pensions which provides extra funds to those with long-term illnesses or disabilities.
Professor Williamson told the court: “The PIP form was extremely invasive, it’s 40 pages and he never filled it in.”
She described how he had later “withdrawn” from the application and she found the incomplete form in his home while sorting out his personal items.
She also said Mr King struggled with his Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) application, which is another form of benefit usually arranged through the Jobcentre for those unable to work.
“He was required to repeat issues that were very sensitive to him,” said Professor Williamson.
“It seems he felt that his credibility was being questioned when he was making this claim.
“He found it humiliating and embarrassing to put it down in writing to justify himself.”
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A “UNIQUE and creative” historian and museum volunteer had struggled with the benefits system before he was found dead in his flat by his close friend, a coroner’s court heard.
Martin King, 59, was a popular helper at the Islington Museum in Finsbury where he helped curate the LGBTQ archive.
Coroner Graeme Irvine ruled that Mr King had taken his own life in April.
Mr King’s close friend Professor Judith Williamson told the inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court on Wednesday that Mr King was “doing the best to manage but not quite managing” when it came to his finances – “despite living extremely frugally”.
She said: “It’s clear he was struggling financially,” adding that her friend had been “daunted” by the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application to the Department for Work and Pensions which provides extra funds to those with long-term illnesses or disabilities.
Professor Williamson told the court: “The PIP form was extremely invasive, it’s 40 pages and he never filled it in.”
She described how he had later “withdrawn” from the application and she found the incomplete form in his home while sorting out his personal items.
She also said Mr King struggled with his Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) application, which is another form of benefit usually arranged through the Jobcentre for those unable to work.
“He was required to repeat issues that were very sensitive to him,” said Professor Williamson.
“It seems he felt that his credibility was being questioned when he was making this claim.
“He found it humiliating and embarrassing to put it down in writing to justify himself.”
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I'm seeing a counselling client who's on PIP. When he first came to see me, he had an upcoming assessment hanging over his head. He's done well in the work, and by his own account feels much happier, and more able to function. However, he's a long way - in my view - from being "fit to work", and he's bricking it about this assessment, because he knows he has to somehow present himself as far worse than he is, just to be able to qualify for benefits which, in my view, the potentially-only-temporary improvement in his mood may well be regarded as evidence for removing PIP from him.
How shit is a system where someone has to, quite possibly at the cost of the improvements in their mental health, have to "pretend" to themselves and an assessor that they are not as well as they might actually feel? Ugh
How shit is a system where someone has to, quite possibly at the cost of the improvements in their mental health, have to "pretend" to themselves and an assessor that they are not as well as they might actually feel? Ugh
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
No one died here, but this is shameful:
PIP assessor told claimant to ignore her ‘irrelevant’ suicide attempt… then challenged her son to a fight
PIP assessor told claimant to ignore her ‘irrelevant’ suicide attempt… then challenged her son to a fight
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
I hope the cunt gets the shoeing he deserves.
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I came to post about him too - Fit-to-work man dies at a job centre piece in the Metro included this:
shameful
The death of Errol Graham: Man starved to death after DWP wrongly stopped his benefits
A disabled man starved to death after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly stopped his out-of-work benefits, leaving him without any income. Errol Graham weighed just four-and-a-half …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
GarveyLives
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