Came across a very distressed lady, approx 58 years old, whose husband passed away through illness last year, leaving her with bank loans to repay, no money coming in, and council tax needing to be paid (among other things).
Job Centre told her she had to work and gave her a load of inappropriate forms to fill in, even though she was under the doctors herself. She was unable to work, suffered great depression, and lives on next to nothing from a bereavement allowance which apparently took some fighting for thanks to local church-goers.
And come May she has to re-apply for disability allowance for herself, since "it was all in with her husband's" before, and when he died disability allowance was stopped.
