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"I can’t afford to be worried about Covid restrictions": Clinically vulnerable, facing skyrocketing living costs, and falling through the cracks
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“Having to use a food bank would be my worst nightmare,” laughs John, exasperated.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, he’s been marked as among the clinically vulnerable - suffering chronic spinal arthritis, vertebrae collapse, and multiple joint inflammation.
But two years in, as many people like John voice their opposition to the rollback of the remaining Covid restrictions, his mind is consumed by another set of fears.
In the face of mounting living costs, and an apparent absence of any help, he says he can’t even afford to go anywhere he might catch the virus.
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John first became disabled in 2011, he tells the Manchester Evening News , but managed to keep on working in health care until 2016.
His arthritis became increasingly severe, to the point where he cannot walk well without a crutch or walking stick.
By that point, he had completed 40 years’ service, and claiming benefits was completely alien to him.
John, from Salford, ‘had trouble sorting his disability benefit’, and resorting to using his pension to get by.
Now, he’s reliant on the standard state pension and his legacy benefits.
Amid an incoming spike in the cost of living - with rising council tax, energy bills and supermarket shelf prices - John is ‘apprehensive’ for the future.
“I’m sure there are many people who are in a worse position than myself, but it doesn’t detract from the fact that things are going to get worse,” John said.
“I’m fortunate enough to have a good utilities provider, but energy will still be going up by 54 per cent.
“I’m on a disability benefit that’s a legacy benefit, not Universal Credit, but that doesn’t seem
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