The DWP eventually gave a severely ill woman the help she was entitled to. But her mother felt she had to cross the country to speak to David Haley in person to produce it happenWhat happened to Emily Field is unlikely to find its way on to the news. But the fable of how one young woman with organ failure was denied help when she most needed it – and the subsequent battle between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP),the outsourcing firm Atos, and a mother – tells us exactly how rotten Britain’s social security system has become. Related: Now Britain needs clothes banks too. What sort of society are we living in? | Frances Ryan Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com