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Bedroom tax suicide

John
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Financial wellbeing manager, Housing 21, North Yorkshire

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Widely reported so I’m sure a lot of you will have already seen this news story but here’s a link a newspaper article about a woman who committed suicide as she was pushed into further poverty by the bedroom tax.

The link is: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bedroom-tax-suicide-stephanie-bottrills-1886058

Am sure this probably won’t be the last of this sort of story we read about unfortunately

benefitsadviser
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The tories blamed the “welfare state” for that idiot who burned down his house and killed his 6 kids. However when asked about the BT suicide they “refuse to comment on individual cases”

Nicky
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What a tragically sad story :(

Andrew Dutton
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But it’s OK, there won’t be any evictions etc anyway so i guess people shouldn’t worry, so says our bold Pensions Minister:

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news/story/no-indications-that-bedroom-tax-will-lead-to-evictions-says-pension-ministe/

They also uphold the DHP budget as a talisman against all criticism. What a strand of straw to hide behind.


When did we go down the rabbit-hole to this unreality?