Lynn’s 44-year old brother Richard had Asperger’s Syndrome. His family only learned after he died that he had been assessed as fit for work. She says, “I think it’s the case with Richard and other people that have died that it could have been different, that if the process had been changed they could still be here. The whole process of going into an interview is scary for people who are already particularly vulnerable and who aren’t used to sitting one-on-one with someone in order to be, as they see it, interrogated. They go in knowing that they have to fight to keep the money they need, just to buy food – it’s degrading, it’s like begging for money to live.”

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