Government ATOS generated suicides

1. Pregnant mother leaps to her death with five-month-old son in her arms after losing benefits

2. Fit to work Dad had heart attack 3. Southfields dad committed suicide after housing benefit cut 4. Claim welfare reforms drove writer Paul Reekie to suicide 5. Jobseeker took own life 6. Body found in River Wear is Leanne Chambers 7. Woman who drowned in drain was upset about health check 8. Stress of Tory benefits tests killed our dad, family claims 9. Army veteran and his wife die in tragic ‘suicide pact’ after becoming ‘too poor to live

through the winter’ 10. Run-down: The property that Mark and Helen Mullins shared as they lived on £57.50 per

week 11. Mr and Mrs Mullins were forced to walk ten miles each week into Coventry city centre to a

soup kitchen where they could get free vegetables 12. Eleven more references

1. Pregnant mother leaps to her death with five-month-old son in her arms

after losing benefits By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

A pregnant woman jumped to her death while clutching her baby son after her benefits had been stopped, an inquest heard. Philosophy graduate Christelle Pardo, 32, plunged from the balcony of her sister’s third-floor flat, killing herself and five-month-old Kayjah. Miss Pardo had been claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) since shortly after leaving London Metropolitan University in May 2008

Suicide: Christelle Pardo, 32, jumped from the balcony of her sister’s third floor flat, in Hackney, London, killing herself and her baby She became pregnant shortly afterwards, but in December her JSA was withdrawn because she was within 11 weeks of giving birth and was considered unable to work. As a result she also lost her automatic entitlement to housing benefit.

The mother, from Hackney, east London, was advised to apply for income support but her application was rejected because the Department of Work and Pensions said she had not proved that she had been in continuous employment in the UK for the previous five years. This was despite having worked or been a student in Britain since 1997. ’We talked sister to sister and she told me how she was feeling. She said she was upset because she felt that she didn’t exist’ In April, her application for child benefit was also rejected when officials learned she had been denied income support. Hackney council then demanded she repay £200 in overpaid housing benefit. Two further appeals for income support were rejected and when Miss Pardo tried to take the Department of Works to a tribunal she repeatedly failed to be given a date for a hearing. Her last phone call to the DWP was on Friday June 12 this year, the day before she committed suicide and killed her son. Ms Pardo’s sister, Olaya, told Poplar Coroner’s Court that she and Christelle had moved to Britain from France and had both been in work ever since. She told the inquest: ‘Her application was completed – she had the right paperwork. ‘Also to get her student loan she needed to go through the same tests and had to be a habitual

resident in the country. She received her student loan, and they could have made inferences from

that.’

The court heard from DWP employees who said that Ms Pardo’s Income Support claim had been correctly rejected because she had not shown she had been working for a period of eight months from the end of 2003. Describing her sister’s death Ms Pardo said she went out to buy some milk before returning to find her front door open. She said: ‘I called for Christelle and didn’t hear anything. I went out to the balcony and when I looked over I could see my sister and Kayjah. ‘That day she was distant, she didn’t say much. She was upset and wanted a date for her tribunal.

‘She was stressed about her benefits. She didn’t want her son to feel all the stress that she was going through with the paperwork. ‘We talked sister to sister and she told me how she was feeling. She said she was upset because she felt that she didn’t exist. ‘If it had not been for me she would have been out on the street.’ The court heard that Christelle could not return to France because she had no relatives there, as her parents had moved away. Her sister said: ‘Going back to France was like going back to another country. She was living here for so many years – this was her country.’ Christelle died at the scene after her plunge. Paramedics took her son to the nearby Royal London Hospital where he died later that day. Coroner Dr Andrew Reid said: ‘She was not in a position around the time her son was born to be actively seeking work, and was not in a position to claim Income Support, which eventually stopped her housing benefit. ‘In lay terms it seems a very parlous situation.’ The coroner recorded a verdict of suicide for Christelle Pardo and a verdict of unlawful killing for the

death of her son.

2. Fit to work Dad had heart attack Derbyshire Times

Ant Hill complaint about dead brother. CALLS for the Government to improve work capability assessments have been made – after a man declared ‘fit to work’ died a month later. Stephen Hill, 53, of Duckmanton, died in December of a heart attack. The dad-of-two had suffered heart problems for around two years and was awaiting major heart surgery but following a ten-minute medical examination on November 17 he was deemed well enough to work. Mr Hill’s brother Anthony, 52, said: “I think the worry put so much pressure on him. “He knew he didn’t have any energy and was getting out of breath easily but because he had been told by a medical expert he was well he thought he should be all right. “He said to me he couldn’t wait to have the operation and get things sorted as he wanted to get back to work.” The assessment was carried out by Atos – which is responsible for carrying out the Government’s drive to assess people claiming incapacity benefit. But Mr Hill’s family – and Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins – are now calling for Atos’ ‘tick box’ system to be overhauled. Mr Perkins said: “Whilst we all acknowledge that there needs to be reform of the welfare system, the cost of failing to properly identify genuine claimants when they are not fit for work is wrong and the consequences can be disastrous. “I am calling on the Government to improve the WCA from the ‘tick box’ exercise it is now so that more families aren’t put through the anguish and loss that Mr Hill’s family are experiencing.” Mr Hill added: “For people that are really ill, like Stephen was, the system is wrong. We want to see it changed so a report from a GP and specialist should be good enough. “Stephen should have been enjoying time with his grandchildren. For this to happen was just terrible.” julia.rodgerson@derbyshiretimes.co.uk

3. Southfields dad committed suicide after housing benefit cut

The Wandsworth Guardian

A desperate man who lined up three kitchen knives before stabbing himself twice in the heart, blamed cuts in housing benefit. Unemployed Richard Sanderson took his own life after writing three suicide notes which were laid out neatly on a bed in a meticulously planned act. In one to his wife he wrote: “Don’t come into the bathroom, this time I will most certainly be deceased”. Mr Sanderson, who said he could not face the thought of his family being homeless, stabbed himself twice in the heart with a kitchen knife on May 29 at home in Augustus Road, Southfields, after years of being unable to find work finally took its toll, an inquest heard. The 44-year-old former helicopter pilot wrote three suicide notes – two for his wife, Petra, and one for the police – after carefully planning the suicide over several days. This followed a failed attempt less than a year earlier. Coroner: Man ordered by Job Centre to give up training course After returning a verdict of suicide at Westminster Coroner’s Court on Tuesday, August 23, Dr Fiona Wilcox said: “What I find particularly tragic in this case is this act appears to be pursued by a man who was not suffering from an illness and appears to have made a considered act in response to his inability to find employment. “The fact his housing benefit was about to be cut and the family would be at risk of having nowhere

to live, and being ordered to give up his training course because of the Job Centre’s rules, would

appear to be especially poignant and tragic.”

In February, Merton Council estimated up to 3,000 residents would be made poorer by the coalition Government’s policy of cutting housing benefits, which will decrease by between £5 and £400 a week from November, depending on the size of the property. “80,000 Londoners at risk of eviction” Annys Darkwa, who runs St Helier-based Vision Housing and helps find homes in Merton for ex-offenders, said tragic cases like this would become more frequent in the coming months because housing benefit cuts would hit the most vulnerable the hardest. Mrs Darkwa said: “We are going to see this happen more and more as we expect 80,000 people across London to be evicted due to housing benefit cuts. “It is especially concerning in Merton where mental health provision has disappeared. What’s going to happen to people who think they’re all alone and commit suicide because they think there’s no one to help them?” Mr Sanderson, who was also a window cleaner, met his wife while travelling in South Africa in 1995 before the pair eventually settled in Wimbledon in 2007 to find better work prospects in London.

Widow: Council cut our housing benefit by £30 a week Mrs Sanderson got a job but was made redundant in 2009, while Mr Sanderson constantly struggled to find work and was unable to complete training as an electrician because the job centre would not continue to pay his benefit because his training stopped him from being available for job interviews. He tried to commit suicide the first time in June 2010 by crushing up 150 tranquiliser pills which he swallowed with a glass of whisky. He was found at home unconscious but still alive by his wife. Mrs Sanderson, who did not attend the inquest because she thought it would be too upsetting, gave a statement to police in which she explained the first suicide bid was done so she and their nine-year-old son could benefit from a life insurance policy payout worth 2.5m South African Rand (about £210,000), which she soon cancelled after the suicide attempt. A psychological report by Dr Joanne Turner, who examined Mr Sanderson at St George’s Hospital, said he did not exhibit any signs of mental illness or depression and claimed to be “embarrassed” by his suicide bid. But in her statement, Mrs Sanderson revealed: “In March or April [2011] we received a letter from [Wandsworth] Council which said our housing benefit would decrease by £30 a week, forcing us to move but leaving us with nowhere to go.” “Despite this, I hadn’t noticed any major change in Richard’s mood. I don’t know why he killed himself. We had planned to go to Wimbledon Common the next day.”

4. Claim welfare reforms drove writer Paul Reekie to suicide Edinburgh Evening Post

Paul Reekie ONE of the Capital’s best-known writers was driven to suicide by the Government’s welfare reforms, a doctor has claimed. Dr Stephen Carty, a Leith GP, told the welfare reform committee yesterday that letters informing Paul Reekie, right, his incapacity and housing benefits would be stopped were used as the suicide note of the iconoclastic poet and author. Dr Carty said: “Paul Reekie took his life following a work capability assessment. He didn’t leave a suicide note. He left on his desk two letters. One was a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) informing him his incapacity benefit had been stopped and the other was from the council informing him his housing benefits had stopped.” Mr Reekie – a contemporary of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh in the early 1990s – died aged 48 at his Leith home in June 2010. He is believed to have had a heart condition and suffered from depression. Dr Carty is a member of the Black Triangle Campaign – a group set up to fight the Government’s welfare reforms. He told the welfare reform committee he had been “staggered” by the DWP’s decision to judge people “who are clearly severely ill” fit for work. He also called computer-based work assessments “inadequate”. Dr David Bell, of BMA Scotland, called £2 billion in projected savings from the reform “inhumane and unreasonable” and said: “The frequency of successful appeals seems to demonstrate the shortcomings of the mechanism. You would not have 60 per cent plus success on appeal if the system was working properly.” Mr Reekie grew up in Leslie, Fife, and moved to Edinburgh at the age of 16 to train as a radio officer at Leith Nautical College. He reached probably his widest audience when his poem When Caesar’s Mushroom is in Season was published on the frontispiece of Welsh’s short story collection, The Acid House. Related Articles ■ Just not working: Why government fit-to-work tests are failing Tests introduced by the government two years ago in a bid to cut benefit fraud are not fit for purpose, say organisers of a campaign, based in Edinburgh, formed to fight them. Here, Jane

Bradley talks to the campaign leaders, including a Leith GP who has many cases where he believes the assessments got it badly wrong ■ The presents of mind – the best Christmas reads KIRSTY GUNN Author ■ Obituary: Paul Reekie, poet, 48 PAUL Reekie, an iconoclastic poet, writer and musician, has died at the age of 48. ■Author’s suicide ‘due to slash in benefits’

5. Jobseeker took own life

A MAN with mental health problems who was worried about benefit cuts killed himself while he was searching for a job on the south coast, an inquest heard. Paul Willcoxson, 33, was found hanging in Pignals Enclosure, near Hollands Wood campsite, Lyndhurst, by walkers on April 14. The 33-year-old from Corby, Northants, was in the area searching for a summer job when he killed himself. A suicide letter and next of kin note were found in which he expressed concerns about Government cuts, Southampton Coroner’s Court heard. Deputy Southampton coroner Gordon Denson recorded a verdict of suicide. wwwthisishampshire.net I wonder how many more people have been in so much despair that they have killed themselves as they can face carrying on ? Shame on the UK Government and the people who are allowing this to happen

6. Body found in River Wear is Leanne Chambers The Chronicle HEARTBROKEN loved ones of missing Leanne Chambers are today waking up to the news that she is never coming home again.

Leanne Chambers HEARTBROKEN loved ones of missing Leanne Chambers are today waking up to the news that she is never coming home again. Police have confirmed a body found in the River Wear five weeks ago is that of the 30-year-old, who disappeared five months ago. Leanne had slipped out of the house she shared with boyfriend Steven Crossland, in Chester-le-Street late on February 23. The sales coordinator, who had battled depression for a number of years, had taken a turn for the worse after receiving a letter telling her she had to be assessed by a doctor to see if she was fit to return to work. But when Steven, 35, went to bed that Tuesday night, leaving Leanne watching television with a bottle of wine, he had no idea it would be the last time he saw his partner. Leanne walked out of their home some time after midnight. And when she failed to return Steven reported her missing, and a huge search operation was launched. Leanne’s mobile phone was found discarded on a bench in Chester-le-Street’s Riverside Park. And divers from Northumbria Police’s Marine Unit, found her purse and coat in the River Wear. But Steven, who met Leanne three years ago at car parts supplier Calsonic Kansei, in Washington, where they both worked, never gave up hope that his girlfriend would be found alive. And even when the body was recovered, at Cox Green, between Penshaw and Sunderland, he told the Chronicle, he was hoping and praying it was not her. But results from DNA tests have now confirmed Leanne’s family’s worst fears. Her mum, Val Chambers, said although she was heartbroken the news would at least allow the family, who have been living in limbo since Leanne disappeared, to move on. “Knowing that Leanne has now been found we can put her to rest,” she said. “Ever since she went missing we have lived with the agony of wondering what had happened to her, reacting to every knock on the door, every phone call or every car which pulled up outside.“We will always remember her as the life and soul of any party, whose smile lit up the room when she walked in. Wherever she worked Leanne had a group of friends, she loved

7. Woman who drowned in drain was upset about health check Hull Daily Mail A WOMAN found dead in a drain had been worried about attending a medical appointment to assess disability benefits, an inquest heard. The body of Elaine Christian, 57, was found in Holderness Drain by a mother returning from a school run.

INVESTIGATION: Humberside Police at Holderness Drain, where the body of Elaine Christian, 57, was found. A post mortem revealed she had died from drowning, despite having more than ten self-inflicted cuts on her wrists. The inquest in Hull was told Mrs Christian had been worrying about a meeting she was due to have to discuss her entitlement to disability benefit. Her spiralling health problems meant she had to give up her job at Cooplands bakery in Greenwich Avenue, where she was described as a cheerful, hardworking and trusted staff member. Her husband Robert’s model shop business in Holderness Road, east Hull, had recently collapsed, plunging the couple into financial difficulties. As a result, the couple were being forced to sell Mrs Christian’s childhood home in Staveley Road, Bilton Grange. Mr Christian told the inquest he had woken up on February 7 to find his wife of 28 years missing. He discovered a suicide note, empty packets of painkillers and pools of blood. Mrs Christian’s body was found in the drain – a 15-minute walk from the couple’s home – by Louise Spiterri, of Portobello Street, east Hull, who had just dropped off her daughter at school. Asked by Hull and East Riding coroner Geoffrey Saul if anything had been troubling his wife, Mr Christian said: “She was upset about going to a medical appointment the next day. “I can’t understand any of this.” Mrs Christian’s death in February prompted police to arrest her husband, along with his brother Steven, who received a phone call at work urging him to rush round to the house. He said: “She was worried about the assessment, but was never one to complain.” PC Gemma Budd, one of the first officers to arrive at the scene, noted evidence of a poor attempt to clean up the mess, with the presence of “watered-down” blood in the kitchen. Officers had noted how Mrs Christian’s husband had blood on his clothes, while his brother – who works at Coniston Garage – had dirt on his hands. However, both men were cleared of any involvement after a crime scene investigation. Antony Dickinson, a crime scene investigator supervisor, said close examinations of the pattern of blood on surfaces in the kitchen and shed ruled out foul play. He said it was likely Mrs Christian had walked to the shed to fetch craft knives in order to cut herself after she found a serrated kitchen knife was not sharp enough.

When this method also failed, Mr Dickinson believes she decided to walk the 500 metres to Holderness Drain. Blood tests showed Mrs Christian had a “moderately high” level of the drug codeine, which is contained in the painkiller co-codamol. She was prescribed the drug last December. Despite the presence of a suicide note, which was not read out to the court, Mr Saul said he was unable to say, with certainty, that Mrs Christian had intended to kill herself at the drain. He said: “I have no evidence to show how she got to the drain. No one saw her there. “Under emotional strain, on a February morning with the water level high, I cannot rule out she slipped into the water. This is a reasonable possibility. “If she had have fallen in, it would have been remarkably difficult for her to have got out again.” Katrina Dennis, manager of Cooplands, said: “Elaine could not have kids, but she loved them and would buy them treats when they came in. “She was one of the nicest people I knew and had a heart of gold. Elaine was totally trustworthy.” Mr Saul recorded an open verdict.

8. Stress of Tory benefits tests killed our dad, family claims Daily Mirror A DAD-of-two was killed by the stress of facing the ­Government’s tough new medical test for benefit claimants, say his grieving family

Groves (pic: Roland Leon, SM) A dad-of-two was killed by the stress of facing the ­Government’s tough new medical test for benefit claimants, say his grieving family. David Groves, 56, died of a massive heart ­attack the night before his medical as he scoured the internet for ways to raise cash in case he lost his entitlement. He had claimed incapacity benefit for three years after doctors ordered him to stop ­working following a heart attack and ­several strokes. His widow Sandra, 57, said being lumped in with “dole scroungers” and the fear of ­financial hardship had a­ ­devastating effect. David – who worked for 40 years as a miner and telecoms engineer – had ­already gone through a stressful eight-month appeal process to keep his £91-a-week ­benefits. But when Tory Work and ­Pensions Secretary Iain ­Duncan Smith ordered a crackdown on “spongers” he was ordered to ­undergo a medical test with French private health giant Atos.

Groves with sons Darrell and Paul (pic: Roland Leon, SM) Sandra, of Staveley, ­Derbyshire, said: “When the ­Government said they were going to get all these benefit cheats and Dave was called in for ­a medical, he felt like he was back to square one. It built up and he was in a terrible state by the day he died. It was the stress that killed him, I’m sure. “He had already had to sell our caravan and he was on the computer looking online to sell our car as well.”

His son Paul, 38, added: “He could hardly walk any distance without needing help from his angina spray. “I don’t know why they could not ask the ­consultants who had told him his heart was too weak to have an elbow operation he needed. They would have made it clear how ill he was.”

9. Army veteran and his wife die in tragic ‘suicide pact’ after becoming ‘too poor to live through the winter’

Every month the couple walked 12 miles to a soup kitchen to get free food

Charity said they ‘slipped through the net’

Mark and Helen Mullins kept food in plastic bags in their garden because they couldn’t afford a fridge

Driven to despair at having to live off £57.50 a weekPoverty-stricken pair found dead at home last Friday

A newly married couple forced to live on £57 a week killed themselves in despair after being ‘abandoned’ by social services, their friends claimed yesterday. The bodies of Mark and Helen Mullins were found lying side by side at their run-down home in an apparent suicide pact. News of the tragedy emerged yesterday as friends told how they had been forced to live ‘hand to mouth’, making a weekly 12-mile trip to a soup kitchen on foot after Mrs Mullins’ benefits were stopped 18 months ago.

Mark and Helen Mullins: Lived in just one room of their run-down home

Tragic: Mark and Helen Mullins could not face another freezing winter on the poverty line, according to neighbours

Military man: Mr Mullins served as a PE teacher in the Army but fell on hard times after leaving the service The couple were given free vegetables at the soup kitchen in Coventry each Sunday, which they boiled into a broth on a camping stove. They lived in just one room of their terraced house to save on heating costs and could not afford a fridge so kept their food in plastic bags in the garden. They are believed to have killed themselves after 18 months of struggling to survive on the £57.50 Jobseeker’s Allowance payment Mr Mullins, a 48-year-old former Army physical training instructor, was able to claim. Their heart-breaking plight was revealed yesterday, five days after their bodies were discovered at their council house in Bedworth, Warwickshire. Charity workers who befriended the couple said society had allowed them to ‘slip through the net’. Mrs Mullins, 59, suffered from learning difficulties and social services are understood to have taken her 12-year-old daughter away last year after she was considered to be incapable of looking after her. As a result, her child benefits were stopped but she was ineligible to claim Jobseeker’s Allowance because she was not deemed fit to work. She was also told she did not qualify for incapacity benefit because she had not been officially diagnosed with a medical condition. Mr Mullins was his wife’s full-time carer. He fought to get a carer’s allowance but was told he could not claim until she was diagnosed with a disorder.

Run-down: The property that Mark and Helen Mullins shared as they lived on £57.50 per week Officers discovered their bodies after neighbours reported they had not been seen for some days. Kervin Julien, who runs the Salvation Army soup kitchen in Coventry used by the couple, said: ‘The question needs to be asked – why was it they felt they had no one else to turn to? ‘It’s sad that in this day and age we have still got prehistoric services that are not meeting the needs of the people who need them. ’WHY THEY WERE LEFT ON £57.50 PER WEEK Mark and Helen Mullins were left living on a measly £57.50 per week in a run-down property which has now been boarded up. They would have received an additional £20.30 per week in child benefit before their 12-year-old was taken off them. Helen was not eligible for disability benefit despite having learning difficulties because they feared she would be put into care if the full extent of her problems were known, friends said. Mark had not been in the forces for long enough to claim a pension. Mr Julien, who appeared in TV programme The Secret Millionaire, added: ‘They walked everywhere hand in hand, like young lovers. ‘Mark talked about the authorities taking Helen’s daughter away from her but not acknowledging her mental health problems. ‘They had been staying with relatives and friends to try and avoid the authorities, as they believed they wanted to section Helen. They just wanted support.’ It is understood the couple married in July last year, shortly after they appeared in an online documentary about people living below the poverty line in Warwickshire. Mr Mullins said in the interview: ‘The job centre decided Helen couldn’t sign on as she was incapable of employment as she has no literacy and numeracy skills.

Mr and Mrs Mullins were forced to walk ten miles each week into Coventry city centre to a soup kitchen where they could get free vegetables ‘However, the incapacity people wouldn’t recognise her disabilities. We’re in a catch 22 situation. We’re living hand to mouth.’ One neighbour said: ‘The authorities turned their back on them. ‘They obviously couldn’t face another freezing winter and felt they had no other choice but to kill themselves.’ Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths. Warwickshire County Council refused to comment because the couple are yet to be formally identified. A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: ‘The couple in question had been receiving weekly benefits from the department since February 2010 – these included money for disability and caring responsibilities as well as out of work support. ‘We had not received any complaint from them about their benefit claim.’ And let’s not forget these: Linda Knott, 46, had worked as a supervisor at the Brierley Community Centre in Little Hulton for 16 years before it fell victim to spending cuts.The news tipped her into depression and she had already taken an overdose of pills eight days before she was found hanging at her home in Walkden.

Jack Shemtob, 53 jumped to his death from his office building after human resources told him he was losing his job as part of the governments cost cutting programme.

Stephen Hill,53, Died of a heart attack a month after having his benefits were stopped, after being told his heart problem were not serious enough to stop him working.

Craig Monk, 43, was found hanging in his home, he had a partial amputation of his leg and was described by his family as “vulnerable”. He became depressed that his benefits had been cut.

Martin Rust, 36, a schizophrenic had his benefits cut and was ordered back to work. He left a note saying: “To those I love, I’m sorry. Goodbye.” Coroner William Armstrong said the DWP’s decision “caused distress and may well have had an adverse effect”, recording that Mr Rust had committed suicide while suffering from a treatment-resistant mental illness.

Paul Turner, 52 died from ischaemic heart disease – caused, his family claim, by the stress of losing his benefits. He was told his heart problems were not serious enough for him not to work, he died 4 weeks later.

Mark Scott, 46, who suffered from anxiety, epilepsy was left penniless when he was declared fit for work and his benefits were stopped. He died six weeks later in the Southport flat where he lived alone.

Colin Traynor, who was a life long epileptic. He was assessed as fit for work, he appealed, but his parents say he became depressed and lost weight , he died less than four months later, the day after his death his parents found out he had won that appeal.

My friends, these are just a few names out of 10,600 since the ConDems took power. The next could be you or a loved one if you lose your job or become ill.

Or these:

Louise Davidson

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/health/lung-transplant-patients-benefits-cash-1499539#.UN6kSgV_lNc.twitter

Louise suffers from cystic fibrosis and is a lung transplant patient. She had her benefits cut from £130 to £21 and the DWP are taking back her mobility car because she was able to walk from one side of a room to the other.

Gary Stirling

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/blaze-survivor-turns-to-christmas-food-1507410#.UN6kblFD_Pg.twitter

Gary suffers from PTSD, found fit for work had benefits cut, is about to be made homeless and is now surviving thanks to food bank.

Ruth Anim

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/03/work-woman-care?CMP=twt_gu

Ruth has learning difficulties, a heart problem and epilepsy. A work capability test by Atos said she should prepare for a job.

Reference resource - http://andreaurbanfox.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/victims-of-dwp-and-atos/ Chris Spivey Resource – http://www.chrisspivey.co.uk/