by Guest » Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:51 pm
From an earlier link:
Then there was Mark Wood, a 44-year-old man with complex mental health issues who starved to death after he was passed as fit-to-work by an Atos assessment. Wood, who had his sickness and housing benefits stopped and was forced to live off just £40 a week, was found weighing just 5st 8lbs and with a body mass index that his doctor said was not compatible with life.
Or Jacqueline Harris, who was partially sighted and had difficulty walking due to slipped discs in her back and neck. The 53-year-old took an overdose after being passed fit-for-work at an Atos assessment, which, it was claimed, took just a few minutes and consisted of only one question: “Did you come here by bus?”
The list goes on. In fact the campaign group Black Triangle has compiled a body count of what they believe to be more than 60 welfare-related deaths of sick or disabled people in the UK. Some reports are so farcical that they might even be humorous if the subject wasn’t so deadly serious, like the case of the DWP informing a woman she must begin "intensive work-focused activity” despite the fact that she was in a coma.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 42735.htmlThose were listed in addition to the diabetic who died.
And yet we still have morons only to happy to cheer lead any further restrictions, punishment or abolition of benefits.
From an earlier link:
Then there was Mark Wood, a 44-year-old man with complex mental health issues who starved to death after he was passed as fit-to-work by an Atos assessment. Wood, who had his sickness and housing benefits stopped and was forced to live off just £40 a week, was found weighing just 5st 8lbs and with a body mass index that his doctor said was not compatible with life.
Or Jacqueline Harris, who was partially sighted and had difficulty walking due to slipped discs in her back and neck. The 53-year-old took an overdose after being passed fit-for-work at an Atos assessment, which, it was claimed, took just a few minutes and consisted of only one question: “Did you come here by bus?”
The list goes on. In fact the campaign group Black Triangle has compiled a body count of what they believe to be more than 60 welfare-related deaths of sick or disabled people in the UK. Some reports are so farcical that they might even be humorous if the subject wasn’t so deadly serious, like the case of the DWP informing a woman she must begin "intensive work-focused activity” despite the fact that she was in a coma.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/government-benefit-cuts-are-already-being--blamed-for-the-deaths-of-three-vulnerable-people-and-there-may-be-60-more-9942735.html
Those were listed in addition to the diabetic who died.
And yet we still have morons only to happy to cheer lead any further restrictions, punishment or abolition of benefits. :off head: