"I'm now expected to pay out more than i am receiving in benefits"

extract from a post on the facebook page ‘ATOS Miracles’ 22 July 2013: https://www.facebook.com/ATOSM

My local HA does not have any 2 bed housing stock available, after my operation, I am going to need a live in carer for a while at least (assuming I survive the process) and the council are taking in excess of £10 a week out of my Council tax benefit for an alleged overpayment because we didn’t inform them when my son who lives with me became non dependant. An oversight as opposed to deliberate fraud I hasten to add. So now I am in a situation where the costs of benefit over payment claw back from both the council and the HA, The 15% bedroom tax, and the reduction of Council tax benefits. I am now actually expected to pay out more than I have coming in in benefits, and that’s before we think about electric, heating food etc. Not once has there been any mention of the hundreds of thousands of pounds my son has saved them in care costs for me, as, had he left home and left me to my own devices, they would have been responsible for!


Having told my specialist, (luckily one of the countries top maxofacial surgeons) all about this when he enquired into why I was looking so rough and still not putting on any weight, his reply was interesting and not an angle that had previously come to me, he said “ Good god what is the point? We spend quite literally hundreds of hours, and hundreds of thousands of health service pounds on curing you and trying to ensure you are capable of enjoying some quality of life, and those inglorious Ba****ds wipe out all our hard work with the swipe of a pen” … a very good point in my opinion!

So, far from preparing myself both mentally and physically for the rapidly approaching medical procedures, I am left worrying myself to death about what will happen to us when this all hit’s the fan as it inevitable will as I cannot pay them what they are asking for. I have made it quite clear to the HA that the only way they will get me out of my home is in a wooden box so do your worst, but I am worried sick that they may try to evict my son whilst I am in hospital to such an extent that I have, far from gaining and getting fit, started to lose weight and strength again and the situation has done nothing but exasperate my depression and anxiety attacks.

My one fervent wish now is that one day, in the not too distant future that all of those responsible, and all of those who have supported the outrage that is the welfare reform act, are brought to justice and made to pay for their inhumanity!