 had abruptly ended, reports Liverpool Echo. The former care worker was forced to stop work several years ago as she suffered with a number of debilitating conditions including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and osteoporosis, which weakens her bones and means she regularly suffers breaks and fractures. After noticing that her usual payments had not arrived in her account last month, Ann contacted the DWP. The former care worker suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and osteoporosis. File image ( Getty Images/Tetra images RF) She was then told to her great surprise that her benefits had been stopped because - according to their records - she had died in August. Recalling the moment she was told of their mistake, she said: "I couldn't believe it, I said well that's news to me. I even got sent a letter addressed to the executor of my will." They haven't told me how they could make a mistake like this, no one even checked to see that I wasn't dead, they just stopped my benefits", she added. Ann was even forced to travel to a local job centre to provide identification, and said her son had to come along to help her as her health conditions made the trip difficult. The Department for Work and Pensions say they had apologised 'unreservedly' for their mistake ( In Pictures via Getty Images) While she proved that she was, in fact, not dead and got her payments restarted afterwards, she was left without money for over a){kind=link}
A disabled woman was forced to prove she was alive at a local jobcentre after the DWP told her that they had stopped her benefits because their records showed she was apparently dead
A woman has told of her shock after she was informed her benefits had been stopped because she was ‘dead’.
Ann Smith, 65, from Kirkdale in Liverpool says she was left with ‘no money’ after discovering the vital payments from Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had abruptly ended, reports Liverpool Echo.
The former care worker was forced to stop work several years ago as she suffered with a number of debilitating conditions including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and osteoporosis, which weakens her bones and means she regularly suffers breaks and fractures.
After noticing that her usual payments had not arrived in her account last month, Ann contacted the DWP.