[Margaret Pilkington]

My father was out of work for a while in the 1990's(it was 1991 - he died in Feb. 1992).......my mother earned 50pence more than the threshold, at which he would have been give a bit more in the way of benefits....he was advised to leave her so that he would be eligible for benefits...needless to say he didn't take that advice they just made the best of what they had, and did without things that they could not afford.