Bedroom tax blamed for gran's death

[mickmyrna]

A grandmother who killed herself left a note blaming the Government for her death.

Stephanie Bottrill's family said she was tortured about how she would afford the £20 extra a week for the two spare bedrooms in her home - money she owed because of the Government's spare room subsidy policy, the so-called "bedroom tax", the Sunday People reported.

[lordna]

What a sad story!

[Terpe]

Very sad and very upsetting.
Seems she had some caring neighbours.
But what a shame she had to go through such turmoil alone.

[grahamw48]

Very sad.

I expect there will be more cases like this.

Yes it's easy for people to say 'move house', but that's not always as simple as it might seem.