Ammar Ebrahim
BBC Jersey political reporter
Published 17 March 2025

A Jersey charity is concerned some mental health patients are becoming homeless because they are losing their housing benefits if they are in hospital for more than 28 days.

A total of 22 out of 357 mental health patients who were admitted to hospital between January 2023 and December 2024 ended up without a permanent home after being discharged.

Patricia Winchester, from the charity My Voice Jersey which supports people with serious mental illness said she wanted the law to change and “a common sense approach to be taken” when it came to benefits.

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