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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Steve Doughty and Larisa Brown
Last updated at 11:57 PM on 17th February 2012
She spent her retirement helping the homeless after a career at the forefront of education.
In return, perhaps she could reasonably have expected to be cared for in her old age.
Now, at the age of 93, Phyllis Wallbank fears she will lose her house after being sent a bill from the council for nearly £5,000.
Despair: Frail Phyllis Wallbank could be forced to sell her family home in order to pay the bill
Mrs Wallbank, who is too frail to feed herself, has been ordered to cover the costs of the carers sent to help her with her meals over the past year. She has just £300 in her bank account, and is worried that she will have to leave her home near Eton College, where she used to work.
A pioneer of modern teaching methods and founder of an East End school, she says she is now struggling to complete forms to take out a mortgage to help pay the bill.
‘I want to be in this house where all my memories are,’ she said. ‘I don’t want to go into a home. I would loathe it. I want to die here looking at the birds and enjoying the view.’
Model teacher: Mrs Wallbank pictured in the 1940s
The plight of Mrs Wallbank is revealed amid deepening concern over the treatment of elderly people. Free help at home has been denied to everyone but the most sick and disabled, leaving hundreds of thousands facing a means-testing system that governs how much they must pay.
Mrs Wallbank, who lives in a cottage worth £650,000 in Dorney in Buckinghamshire, has been sent a bill for £4,782.34 for her meals and the carers who help her to eat them.
Her county council – for which Mrs Wallbank worked after she left school in the Thirties – has demanded rapid payment.
The council’s testing system means that anyone with assets worth more than £23,250 must pay the entire cost of their care.
The widow told the Daily Mail: ‘I only have £300 in the bank and that is for food. I have never owed a penny in my life. If I hadn’t been a Catholic I would have been tempted to finish my life. A lady came into my house and told me I owed thousands of pounds and I was so frightened. I thought, “I can’t afford to feed myself so what is the point?”’
She said she now has to borrow against the house she bought almost 70 years ago ‘to pay to be fed’, adding: ‘I worked very hard to buy this house, I saved every penny. I don’t want to leave.’
Born in 1918, Mrs Wallbank worked as a child probation officer in Buckinghamshire after leaving school while studying in the evenings. After running an East End rest shelter during the Blitz, she became a friend of educationist Maria Montessori and helped spread the Montessori system around the world.
She married a clergyman and started a school in the sitting room of his rectory in London; the independent Gatehouse School continues to operate.
A grandmother of six, she was made an MBE in 1996 and continued her charity work feeding the homeless after retiring.
Her local councillor in charge of health and wellbeing, Patricia Birchley, said she ‘cannot discuss the individual circumstances of users of our services’, but added that the council’s ‘charging policy observes national guidelines to ensure that charges for services are made in a fair way’.
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