Will you help White in his fight?

In the dark and dismal days of 2018 in Brexit Britain, there resides one Daniel White and his wife Tracy at 35 Claremont Road, Hextable, Kent, only about 8 miles from Eltham where Bob Hope was born.

Two weeks ago, he was helping his neighbour, who has a husband with senile dementia, retrieve her handbag discarded along a footpath following an opportunist robbery that took place while she was away from her husband for just a short while. There was no cash left in the bag but some photos, that meant more to her, and yet this hero; this Community stalwart, has trouble enough. You see his wife has been fighting cancer for two years, and Dan is without work, he had had a job but lost it also two years ago due to a mental breakdown, brought on by the stress of his wife’s sickness and the extra-long hours he did to cover her earning loss.

Initially he received some small severance pay, then when that ran out he had to take government sick pay, until one day they sent him to be assessed, to see if he was fit to return to work, the letter he received told him to make his way to an office in Croydon Surrey, it told him not to take any evidence of his prior diagnosis, he duly attended the assessment, and waited for the finding; it turned out they had decided he was fit for work.

Dan appealed against this decision but was informed he had shown no evidence to support his case at the examination! so now he was denied the extra pay he had received previously, and started to fall behind on his mortgage payments, with a lender named 'to the best of my knowledge' as the Southern Pacific Mortgage Company, whose headquarters is in the USA. On Friday 25th November 2018 he received a visit from one of their UK based officials to inform him they are going to start foreclosure on his modest home.

You can imagine the trauma and worry he is under. His biggest fear though is how this will affect his wife’s health, as her battles are not yet over.

©Joe Maverick 27-11-2018

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