- She weighed around 5 stone
- 6 pounds
- (34 point 4 kilos)
- and was being fed by a drip.
- A history of illness:
- Crohn’s disease,
- osteoporosis,
- suffered a stroke
- in 2005.
- A physical assessment
- described her as having
- a ‘slim build’;
- ‘a pleasant lady to assess.’
- After,
- she was told her support would be stopped
- and that the Department
- would try to recoup
- a prior overpayment.
- Then she received a new diagnosis:
- lung cancer;
- terminal.
- She submitted a form
- from her doctor
- to the Department.
- A letter came back
- a month later
- to say
- that the information on the form
- required her to start a fresh claim.
- She died the same day.
[BBC News, 08/11/2021, Hundreds of people die fighting for terminal illness benefits]