DENVER: The sister of a partially sighted senior man who killed himself after his benefits were cut is calling on the government to publish details of its review into his case, one of 60 internal investigations of suicides linked to benefit changes it has carried out since 2012.
The sister found the body of her brother, who was agoraphobic and suffered mental health problems, in his home in September 2013. There was no food in his house, no money in his bank account, and in the dustbin she found a letter threatening him with eviction.
A few months after his suicide, the coroner ruled that a major factor in his death was that his benefits had been “greatly reduced, leaving him almost destitute”…