Storify by Graham Linehan

A very high bar for ESA eligibility

Are you dead? Yes? Tough.

Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
My friend who was cremated y/day has been sent her p45 & told she is not sick enough 4 esa & to look 4 work.
Thu, Aug 16 2012 17:01:06
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Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
the tweet about my friend being sent her P45 & told to look for work after her death has been rt a lot. To clarify, this was a not a sudden
Fri, Aug 17 2012 02:25:41
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Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
...illness of a previously healthy person, but a long-drawn out debilitating problem which left her too ill to even use a wheelchair for yrs
Fri, Aug 17 2012 02:26:45
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Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
of course ppl get suddenly ill & die, the DWP cant b expected to know everything, but this was a person who had been assessed & who was ...
Fri, Aug 17 2012 02:27:46
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Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
..clearly desperately ill, the last few years of her life spent unable to sit up, let alone work.
Fri, Aug 17 2012 02:29:37
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Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
my friend was refused a stairlift & a downstairs toilet, making life extremely difficult. On a good day she would crawl upstairs, taking ..
Fri, Aug 17 2012 02:32:18
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Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
..over half an hour to get upstairs, plus another half to get down. She worked all her life until a few years ago when her illness worsened
Fri, Aug 17 2012 02:34:01
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Karen Hackett @karen_hackett
Basically she was failed (I think) by much of the system. I really cannot understand how she was treated, it is incomprehensible.
Fri, Aug 17 2012 02:35:12
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