[mrmanner]

> letters make no mention of a deadline or the fact that their payments will cease if they do not respond within 28 days. A spokesperson said this was “to avoid causing upset”

This is the most stereotypically British thing I’ve heard this year

[Snow_Falls]

It's also a blatant lie, the system is broken and the government allows social services to be so bad because it wants to spend as little money on them as possible.

[TheOtherHobbes]

Not just that. The benefits system has been designed to be hostile and abusive to most claimants.

The UK is the country that forces its chronically ill and physically incapable into suicide or death by starvation.

These people are "economically unproductive", so the logic of eugenics suggests they should die.

https://deathsbywelfare.org/list-view/

[CapstanRoller]

>The UK is the country that forces its chronically ill and physically incapable into suicide or death by starvation.

The USA, also, except here it's often done in tents on the street with fentanyl or deaths of despair elsewhere.

[dotancohen]

  > forces its chronically ill and physically incapable into suicide

What should I be reading to learn more?

[rvba]

Easy imagine a scenario when someone gets ill and lands in a hospital and "the system" does not pay them their money.

[dotancohen]

I don't know, I could imagine quite a bit.

How is the UK different from anywhere else in this regard?

[goodSteveramos]

> Blatant lie disguised as over politeness

Yup. Thats about the most British way to speak.

[peterleiser]

This whole story reminds me of the movie Brazil.

[mjburgess]

Not uncoincidentally a british film