{"id":5896,"date":"2025-09-26T01:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:41:06","slug":"phillip-herron-inside-a-single-dads-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5896","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Herron: Inside a single dad\u2019s tragic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Father in Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phillip Herron, a 34-year-old single father from Durham, England, took his own life in 2019 with only $6 in his bank account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He struggled under nearly $25,000 in debt while waiting weeks for his first Universal Credit payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The System Fails<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universal Credit, designed to simplify welfare, left Phillip in financial limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen people ask for help, they\u2019re already desperate,\u201d his mother Sheena Derbyshire said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaking them wait this long? It\u2019s dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Family Shattered<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phillip\u2019s final selfie and goodbye note devastated his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a total shock,\u201d Sheena said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His children continue to grieve, and none received therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Plea for Change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheena hopes speaking out will help others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlease, please talk to someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t let another family go through this\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this doesn\u2019t change, he won\u2019t be the last.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Father in Crisis Phillip Herron, a 34-year-old single father from Durham, England, took his own life in 2019 with only $6 in his bank account. He struggled under nearly $25,000 in debt while waiting weeks for his first Universal Credit payment. The System Fails Universal Credit, designed to simplify welfare, left Phillip in financial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}