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64, who was left starving and unable to stand but still deemed 'fit to find work' DIES in hospital
Daily Mail ^
| 4/21/2019
| MILLY VINCENT
Posted on 04/21/2019 4:03:23 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A six-stone emaciated man who was deemed 'fit to find work' by the DWP has died.
Stephen Smith, 64, died on Monday, after struggling with a number of severe health problems.
His case hit the headlines recently when a fitness for work assessment by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) denied him vital benefits.
Shocking images showed the 64-year-old Liverpool man emaciated in hospital after he was admitted with pneumonia.
However, despite his glaringly obvious poor health and worrying weight loss, Mr Smith was forced to leave hospital to fight a decision by the DWP which insisted he was fit and capable of finding work.
He won the appeal after a tribunal judge saw he could barely walk down the street let alone hold down a job.
And after finally agreeing to re-instate his benefit, the DWP confirmed he would also receive back-payments for the money he was wrongly denied.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aca; british; dwp; england; eu; healthcare; singlepayer; socialism; stephensmith
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Socialism and single payer Insurance/Medical benefits at work Betcha the Brits don’t mess with the Muslims like that...
To: Beave Meister
What the death and misery peddling dems want for the masses here.
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:04:40 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
To: Beave Meister
I'm afraid that Mr. Stephen Smith was the wrong skin color and the wrong ethnicity.
If Mr. Smith had been a muslim mohammed-come-lately with 4 wives and 15 children, he would have been given a council a couple of new council flats and a couple thousand pounds per month in perpetuity just for laying about and reading the Koran.
To: Beave Meister
If one is healthy and a US citizen the democrats want to give no hope and the democrats’ change
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:11:11 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: Beave Meister
I wonder who the person that denied his benefits was, “Asian”? I bet it was...
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:12:44 PM PDT
by
Rumplemeyer
(The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
To: Beave Meister
To: Beave Meister
Shouldn’t be long till Americans are worshiping at the alter of single payer
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:13:21 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: Beave Meister
Six stone would be 96 lbs.
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:13:41 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Rumplemeyer
Asian?
Care to elaborate?
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:13:54 PM PDT
by
dadgum
(Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:14:08 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: dadgum
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:14:36 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Beave Meister
“No” is the easiest thing for a bureaucrat to say.
L
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:14:50 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: no-to-illegals
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:15:03 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: Zhang Fei
To: Beave Meister
Ain’t “free” health care grand?
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:16:16 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: wally_bert
"
What the death and misery peddling dems want for the masses here."If only more people were aware.
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:16:24 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
To: wally_bert
Bingo, the sooner Americans are replaced with functionally illiterates from 3rd world socialist countries, the sooner their power will be permanently entrenched. Fight on my Fellow Americans, while we still have life and hope.
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:17:04 PM PDT
by
gspurlock
(http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
To: wally_bert
Looks like he had cancer.
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:19:46 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Beave Meister
They are not helping those who truly need it, but they are helping the cheaters.
Sad.
To: Pajamajan
If they were, I doubt they’d care.
Too much energy goes into “orange man bad”.
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posted on
04/21/2019 4:21:31 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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