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Ensuring that people can access all the benefits that they are entitled to is a safeguard against a person seeking assisted dying because of poverty. Evidence to the committee in the other place highlighted that people with a prognosis of over three months, and who are ineligible for fast-track funding, are often concerned about their savings being rapidly depleted by the higher costs of care and its impact. Dr Luke Geoghegan, policy lead at the British Association of Social Workers, stated in oral evidence to our Select Committee on the Bill: