MOST of us are aware of the extreme suffering endured as a result of the Government’s latest, callous benefits fiasco.
One thinks chiefly of ensuing evictions, inability to pay utility bills, resorting to food banks and so on, together with all the social and psychological consequences of such humiliations, but I have just heard of the case of a single person locally with a teenage offspring, left without sufficient income to purchase even essential, longterm medication for which the state should debatably be paying in the first place.
Fortunately, a family member is in a position to help out. There must be others who do not enjoy this ‘luxury’.
How low can a supposedly civilised nation in the 21st century stoop and what does it expect to gain from such an obscenity?
DAVID DIMENT
Riverside Court, Oxford
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