Half-blind widow killed herself after her incapacity benefit was axed because she was fit enough to catch a bus.
Despite being in constant pain, former nurse Jacqueline Harris had her benefit stopped after being told she was fit enough to work during a two-minute fitness assessment. The 53-year-old - who had claimed incapacity benefit for several years - was waiting for a major spinal operation when the decision was made by Atos, the Government-appointed private company behind the fitness-to-work tests. She was found dead at her home in Kingswood, south Gloucestershire, in November 2013, just weeks before a hearing to appeal the decision. Mail.When Major then Blair shovelled well over a million onto sickness benefits to hide unemployment figures - that was the beginning of the chaos which led to ATOS. That IDS has tried to get the leadswingers off benefits is good but his methods means that flowers are being pulled up with the weeds!
