Benefit sanctions

When you are a diabetic, you inject insulin to counteract the carbohydrate that you eat. If he was not eating he probably thought he did not need his insulin.
He died of ketoacidosis which can happen within hours of not having food and insulin.

I'm sorry if I sneered. But I do think there are too many epetitions. And I was very puzzled about this case at the time. Why didn't the sister help him? Do we know why the poor man didn't inject his insulin? Was it down to depression? It wqs a very sad case, but I honestly think it is a bit rich for the sister to be blaming the government now.

211,000+ did not agree with you. Neither did MPs who are going to have an enquiry into benefit sanctions after another www.change.org e-petition.

I did not resort to a Mirror article. Because I signed the petition, his sister sent me an update, which had a link to the Mirror article.
I do not know if the Guardian reported it as I have not had time to read it over the last two days. These days I usually buy the i as my grandson, who I am teaching five days a week, will read the i. The Guardian is too much for him. He has autism.
Do you two actually care about anyone apart from yourselves?
Why do you have to sneer at everyone?

Of course. The usual Shock-Horror headlines.

I'm surprised you had to resort to a Mirror article, durhamjen! Didn't the Guardian report it?

From another Mirror article:

"But a spokeswoman for the Prime Minister has brushed off calls for change.

Asked if it was right that a diabetic man had had his benefits taken away she said: “Judgments that are made around benefits are based on individuals circumstances relevant to their looking to find work, their various conditions.

“Even when someone is sanctioned then they can still get financial support through the Hardship Fund.

“And before people have their benefit sanctioned there will be a series of efforts to contact people by letter and by phone if they fail to attend an appointment.”

A lot more to that than meets the eye.

Yeah, because the government is bound to listen to what the Daily Mirror says. Those epetitions are two-a-penny.

(Wonder why the sister in that case didn't help her brother out instead of just kicking up a fuss after he was dead) And why would his not giving himself the necessary insulin (which caused his death) have anything to do with benefits payments? Very sad, but hard to take at face value.