- He worked for forty years:
- a miner, then a telecoms engineer.
- Following a heart attack
- and several strokes
- his doctors ordered him to stop working.
- He had claimed for three years,
- ninety-one pounds a week.
- He had already gone through an eight-month appeal
- to keep his benefits,
- but following a crackdown on ‘spongers’
- he was ordered to undergo a medical test.
- He died of a massive heart attack
- the night before his medical
- as he scoured the internet
- for ways to raise cash.
[Daily Mirror, 22/05/2011, Stress of Tory benefits tests killed our dad, family claims]