Over 1,000 terminally-ill patients rejected for UK benefits every year & spend final weeks fighting for aid, charities warn ...News

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Two British charities have called for the rule which requires terminally-ill people to prove they have six months or less to live to qualify for state benefits to be abolished, as hundreds every year die without support. More than 100 people per month are being denied their lawful benefits by the UK government within the last six months of their life, the end-of-life charity Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND) said on Wednesday. The figure comes from data released to Parliament by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last year, which indicated that there were at least 1,860 such incidents over an 18-month

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