Please click on The Guardian link below for the full article 

Human cost of welfare reform: ‘I’m being punished because of my health’ – video

Ministers have insisted welfare reform will protect the most vulnerable. But the Guardian has seen a memo from senior jobcentre management that acknowledges changes to the benefits system could have ‘profound results’ for vulnerable claimants. The Guardian spoke to both Julie Carwardine and Richard Sykes about the financial and mental impact of losing their benefits

Please click on The Guardian link below for the leaked DWP Memo on suicide and mental health risk of welfare ‘reform’.

See also www.calumslist.org


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  1. do you think they care they do not have anyheart at all the torys are only out to screw the system in reverse take of the poor to feed the rich and there we have it in a nutshell jeff3

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