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Family blame ‘bedroom tax’ pressure for woman’s death
Family blame ‘bedroom tax’ pressure for woman’s death
The family of a woman who blamed the Government for her death in a suicide note said she was struggling to cope with paying the so-called bedroom tax, the Sunday People has reported.
Stephanie Bottrill’s relatives told the paper she was worried about how she would afford the £20 extra a week for the two under-occupied bedrooms in her home – money she owed because of the Government’s spare room subsidy policy.
Ms Bottrill, who died on May 4, left a letter to her son Steven, which said: “Don’t blame yourself for me ending my life. The only people to blame are the Government,” the paper reports.
He told the newspaper: “She was fine before the bedroom tax. It was dreamt up in London, by people in offices and big houses. They have no idea the effect it has on people like my mum.”
Get your windows clean and help family unpaid carers
Friday 10 May 2013
Get your windows clean and help the carers
Getting Kilkenny’s windows gleaming for summer, local company McCreery Contract Cleaning is launching its new ‘Reach & Wash’ window cleaning system with a fundraiser for family carers.
All companies and homes who book window cleaning services with McCreery Contract Cleaning from May 7–10 inclusive will see the full cost donated to the Carers Association, Kilkenny. To book the service, Freefone 1850 211 863.
There are 4,055 family carers in Kilkenny. Many are living in very difficult circumstances having faced a number of recent cuts in services and payments, including cuts to vital home help hours and an almost 20% reduction in the Respite Care Grant in Budget 2013.
“Having cared for my own mum, I have a huge respect for the work of family carers,” said Jennifer McCreery of McCreery Contract Cleaning.
WEST NORFOLK: Dementia patient angry at cutbacks
Sunday 5 May 2013
WEST NORFOLK: Dementia patient angry at cutbacks
A mental health patient has criticised planned cuts in dementia services as a money-saving operation.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust announced two weeks ago that staff numbers in Dementia and Complexity in Later Life services in West and Central Norfolk would be cut from 178 to 137.
The redundancies were said to be part of a four-year strategy involving “huge and complex” changes including new local commissioning arrangements and financial restraints caused by the recession and public spending cuts.
A former patient of the Fermoy Unit in Lynn, James Cramp, 69, of Columbia Way, was concerned about job cuts at the Chatterton House dementia unit and the Fermoy Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
