Letter: My son lost more than just a job
I watched him gradually deteriorate, having lost his dignity and self-respect. It was soul destroying. We lost him shortly after he turned 60. His bus pass arrived whilst he was in hospital. Later, on going through his papers I found a letter informing him that HM Government had decided he could live on 54 a week. (It cost 3 to get to and from the job centre).
I also discovered that he had been applying for jobs until a few weeks before he died. In view of the recent goings-on of those in government it was so unfair.
H Baxter, Cairneyhill