Woman tests positive for Covid-19 – and is threatened with sanction if she doesn’t attend Job Centre
Habitual cruelty: if you thought the Tories stopped persecuting people with long-term illnesses and disabilities during the Covid-19 crisis, think again.
This is the UK in 2021, summed up in one series of tweets:
https://twitter.com/Vincent_Rowlatt/status/1463067907789885442
https://twitter.com/Vincent_Rowlatt/status/1463120769035161604
https://twitter.com/Vincent_Rowlatt/status/1463076474509008897
https://twitter.com/Vincent_Rowlatt/status/1463081654092767235
I don’t know where this Job Centre is, but its staff are clearly trying to create another Jodey Whiting.
Jodey had incurable conditions – they could only get worse – and failed to attend a benefit re-assessment interview because she was in hospital with a brain cyst at the time.
All her benefits were cut off – even though the interview can only have been to work out whether her conditions had worsened enough for her to require increased payments.
She took her own life soon afterwards. A coroner ruled that it could not be described as suicide because there is reason to believe her action could have been a cry for help.
This Writer has no doubt that Ms Whiting was pushed towards taking her own life by the Department for Work and Pensions.
If somebody on benefits contracts Covid-19, fails to attend a benefit interview, and the DWP cuts off all her payments – in the full knowledge of what happened with Ms Whiting – doesn’t that indicate, to you, that this government department is hoping for the same end result?
It does to me.
Let’s hope it doesn’t get that far.
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I see some still don’t believe that JCP DWP can and will sanction you for any little offence they deem hmmm open your eyes before I TS you sitting there aktion t4 rolling along with out much of a ado