Mother ‘took her own life’ after £500-a-month mortgage increase and benefits rejection

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14634967/Mother-died-mortgage-increase-benefits-rejection.html

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17 comments

  1. Surely that must make the Daily Heil happy?

    One less “benefit scrounger” according to their usual shite.

    Or are they just trying to manufacture outrage and pretend the main reason for the mortgage increase wasn’t the fault of our little gem, Liz Truss?

  3. Really tragic story but surely there were other options than taking your own life. Why didn’t she try to sell her house and temporarily move in with one of her kids whilst she got back on her feet.

    The DailyFail is obviously trying to stir up hate around the benefits system when this sadly is a mental health story and something that could have been easily avoided. RIP.

  4. Kids, make sure you explore refinancing and equity release from a property before doing anything… ahem… dramatic.

  6. There’s no way an interest rate change caused a 6 fold increase in mortgage repayments. The bank must have just decided to jack the price up. Sure there should be a law against this.

  8. Very quintessential British to rather die than rent.

    Fcking boomers.

  9. Why didn’t she just sell the house? I get that comes with all its own issues and she was dealing with osteoporosis which can be a nightmare to live with but. Just sell the house? You’re 60 retirement was literally around the corner.

  10. People over 60 are not excluded from PIP
    A private, unqualified, assessor denied her claim
    If she did, in fact, meet eligibility criteria we’ll never know. It is true that over half of PIP claims are rejected, but almost three quarters of those rejections are overturned by the independent court. In other words, most people who are refused PIP are legally entitled to it 

    Making PIP harder to claim and taking it away from millions of genuinely disabled claimants can only result in more disabled people committing suicide 

  11. I am so sorry for her family.

    I can’t compare my pain to hers, but I can share it with those of you that will read my words.

    Not so long ago I lost my country and my house, I had to sleep on the couch of someone else without a job but I was in my late 20s not my 60s, I was lucky.

    I am lucky because I have had those thoughts, I have seen the futures where nothing I did would change the fact that I would loose it all.

    I am lucky because at times where I felt poverty enveloping me and killing my grandpa, grandma, my friend’s parents, the hopes of my friends the only respite I had was the fact that maybe I could end all the suffering at least for myself.

    I am lucky because I am stubborn and I am angry I could not let the kleptocrats steal everything that I had left. I couldn’t abandon the pieces of my family in their hands.

    Poverty is horrible for mental health, it makes me sad that we keep punishing the poor for being poor because the kleptocrats at the top will “Leave” the UK with their millions of flying homes and assets.

    I would like to have the money and time to write a book about The kleptocracy, and how I survived it in Venezuela but I don’t so in my time I do my best to battle inequality.

  13. People like this that actually need PiP can’t get it and my mate who is only 40 gets PIP and enhanced motability for a “bad back” and is away raving at the weekend bouncing around the place like a 15 year old. It’s such a fucked system.

  15. Honestly I’ve had many nights where I’ve thought about taking my own life through fear of financial difficulty

  16. This doesn’t make sense. She might have been denied PIP (not due to her age though) but having a mortgage doesn’t disqualify you from UC. Having savings over £16k does.

    But if she had that in savings, she wouldn’t have felt so desperate?

    Regardless of the reasons, her family are obviously devastated and it’s awful this lady felt this was her only choice.

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