Universal Credit, trying to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for my health issues. I was having support from various services, but with the beginning of the lockdown it all seemed to vanish.
I was alone in a fourth floor flat. I didn’t see or speak to other people for weeks at a time, but I was trying to stay strong for my adult children who were also struggling.“I had no money, no friends and was estranged from my family.
Life felt unbearably bleak and lonely.”It was the following year that broke me, though. My son was seriously ill, and I couldn’t get to the hospital to see him.
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