Distressing demands for Council tax

 I find it very distressing and perverse that I continue to be hounded by the London Borough of Hillingdon for the council tax for the last property I lived in where I was brutally attacked by my perpetrator. Kicked and sustained a fracture arm from his brutality.  I have asked and asked that this be waivered out of common decency for the situation I am faced with.  I have been left penniless... yet I have been asked to pay not only the council tax on the last property but expected to pay council tax on the OAP studio bungalow I am housed in now... Demands for money I have not got... lump sums to pay they say since 2015 when I have been receiving by law the £73.10 a week which was titrated to £55 a week because I get just short of £65 a MONTH NHS pension.  This as I have shared with you before baffles me as claimants can have up to £16,000 in savings and still get benefits of JSA and ESA... yet I have nothing no assets and because I get the monthly very small NHS pension it is deducted from my over said by law amount of £73.10 that I must live off. Not even permitted to be a little be extra for me to live off.   I have to pay housing benefit cap too but because I am being pushed into extreme poverty I cannot pay.  
The email from the:-
Specialist Recovery Officer
London Borough of Hillingdon
States she can not make comment on all the email pleas before sent. But outlines what must be paid and what should be taken from my benefits!

The email I have answered and sent to my MP John McDonnell and as the PM Theresa May and Amber Rudd the Home Secretary had been declaring on International Women's Day that they would be helping women survivors they have been sent the response too.  I have included Boris Johnson as the property where I was attacked is in his now constituency and as he had promised to help me when the Mayor of London and had insisted I get Mr Puddifoot the council leader of the LBH to help me and let him know how he was helping me ...so I have included them too.  Alongside the lawyer who secured legal aid for me to facilitate the divorce from my perpetrator and I have sent a copy to the chair of the APPG Poverty where I have been voicing my concern that women need a better financial pathway of support, as we have been left in poverty and are pushed further and further into unbearable undignified poverty.  

In fact I think some reparation for the foul deeds upon me and other women by their perpetrators should be looked at.. To receive a lump sum settlement to help us feel safe from all this system failure hassle would be a big plus on our way to healing and rebuilding our broken lives.   The whole DWP needs review and the treatment of those in need of support.  It really is not acceptable to have this torment on top of the torture of the violence. 

I have refered them to the pdf debate pack where the PM is promising £20 million as part of a £100 million package to help survivors but point out that this is targeted to refuges and MUST also be there to help women rehoused in the wider community rebuilding their lives!

ref:  DEBATE PACK Number CDP-2017-250 8 December 2017

This week I have a chest infection with pronounced wheezing and a nasty barking tickly cough  it has given me a lot of thoracic pain where my breast surgery scars are particularly over the left area..... and also i have needed personal hygiene things to keep my dignity.  When practising as a nurse and midwife I have always kept my patients and mothers clean and with dignity. yet here I am this week struggling to get the pads I need.  I have a GP review that was pre-planned anyway for me this Friday - my birthday when I turn 64yrs old. Yet I am denied the dignity of my STATE PENSION being one of the WASPI women that the nation has from a sudden shift in pension age. 

I feel immensely let down by my country my motherland... and it is not the land my mother and father fought for as early Labour Party members.  I was asked to join the Tory party with the councillor that helped me with Boris to get this OAP bungalow that I am in now.  But I refused how can I join a party that has no compassion for the citizens of the land that need help.... are not social malingers evading work.. My goodness my first job was in 1969... and i have given much to this country in unpaid hours as a RN RM working like many of us do through breaks and get off late to serve our patients....  I cannot believe that I am treated like this now with no love and respect for all I have done and care and compassion for all I have been through. You know I try and try and try to regain financial dignity but no one wants to employ a 64 yrs old woman and one that is now through this failed system is feeling worn out exhausted instead of healed and with peace and rebuilt life. 

I would like to extend my gratefulness to my neighbour who sat and listened to me in the night... she suffers insomnia and always tells me to call round if I am upset than be alone.  She is appalled at all this and she sees in me how it keeps me tethered to the past pain... she saw how I feel the pain over and over again of the beatings and the punches the kicking and hear again the horrid foul words that my perps have said to me... 

I ask you readers is this the way you want this country to treat women survivors of Domestic Violence! It certainly is not the way I want women to be treated!! TIME FOR REFORM OF THE DWP POLICIES - TIME FOR A FULL REFORM OF HELP TO HEALING AND DETOXING OF THE UGLINESS OF VIOLENCE  TIME FOR PEACE AND REBUILDING OF BROKEN LIVES WITH LOVE CARE AND COMPASSION. 

I WILL CONTINUE TO GET WOMEN'S VOICES HEARD!