A grieving student nurse is in thousands of pounds worth of debt after being refused government help for her dads funeral.
Beccy Oxley, studying nursing at Liverpool John Moores University , was forced to pay out over £3,000 for funeral arrangements after her father died suddenly in November 2016.
The 24-year-old, who was his next of kin and one of his only surviving relatives, applied for the governments funeral payments scheme – which was set up to help people on a low income help to pay for funerals.
However because Beccy is a full-time student, who also completes an unpaid 30-hour-per-week placement as part of her course, she was denied help and forced to loan the money to pay for her fathers send-off.
She said: I work 30 hours a w…
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