A deputy is trying to help a widow who lost her home after the husband she gave up work to care for died.

A WOMAN who gave up work to care for her dying husband has lost her home and been left living on sickness benefit.

THE European Court of Human Rights is the last hope for widows ‘caught out’ by a bereavement benefit change after a requete to find a way to compensate them was yesterday rejected.

OUR story of Guernsey’s so-called ‘forgotten widows’ on page 3 today is one likely to arouse sympathy in many quarters.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting for forgotten widows, who they claim were caught out by the closing of a loophole, will plead with Social Security to change its system.

WORK to get justice for island women caught out by scrapping the widows’ pension in 2004 is taking place behind the scenes, a deputy has revealed.