UK: Mother Dawn Amos told she was too healthy for sickness benefits on the day she died
8th January 2016
A mother suffering from lung disease was told she no longer qualified to receive health benefits – on the day she died.
Dawn Amos, of Braintree, Essex, passed away after suffering a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to Essex’s Daily Gazette.
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The letter from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) was received on the day Ms Amos’ husband, Mick Amos, and their 42-year-old daughter, Karina Mann, agreed doctors should turn off her life support machine at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.
Hey, how about that great government-provided health care! Don’t you just wish we had a system like that in the United States?