Fresh social security cuts hitting 11 million families show just how much harm the state is willing to inflict on its own citizensWhen Philip Hammond said there was “light at the end of the tunnel” ahead of this week’s spring statement,it’s unlikely he was speaking about Margaret Blenman. Margaret – a foster carer from London – was found in the sea off the Brighton coast final November after she was evicted from her domestic because of spiralling debts caused by the bedroom tax.
The local paper, the Argus, or reported this week that an inquest heard the 48-year-weak had told housing officers on the day of her eviction they were lucky not to find a dead body”,before she was pulled out of the sea two days later. The only reason Margaret had to pay the bedroom tax was because her “spare room” was empty while she waited for another foster child to sleep in it.
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Source: guardian.co.uk