A grandmother died from lung cancer weighing just three stone after the Department for Work and Pensions stopped her £177.85-a-week benefits. Christine McCluskey, 61, from Dundee, Scotland, had several long-term health conditions which left her housebound and she was denied her disability benefits for four months before she died. When Christine was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer a month later, the DWP still would not reinstate her benefits. When she was assessed Christine weighed 5st 5lbs and four months later, when she died, she was just 3st. Michelle believes the stress of battling the DWP for her benefits contributed to her mother's rapid decline.

Source: Daily Mail July 23, 2020 12:07 UTC