Pensioner Driven To Suicide by ‘Bedroom Tax’

A Solihull grandmother has killed herself because she was struggling to afford the government's 'bedroom tax', her son has claimed.  Stephanie Bottrill left a note in which she blamed the Government for her death.  Just days before she died, the 53-year-old, from Solihull in the West Midlands, told neighbours she simply could not afford to live any more.  Her family told the Sunday People she was tortured about how she would afford the £20 extra a week for the two under-occupied bedrooms in her home - money she owed because of the Government's spare room subsidy policy, the so-called "bedroom tax".  In a letter to her son Steven, 27, she said: "Don't blame yourself for me ending my life. The only people to blame are the Government."  Read more on the Sunday People website.