A woman took her own life by walking in front of a lorry on a motorway after leaving a note blaming government benefit changes, a coroner has ruled.
Stephanie Bottrill, 53, from Solihull in the West Midlands, died in May last year after walking on to the M6.
Her family said she had been worried about how she would afford an extra £20 a week as a result of changes to her housing benefit.
Mrs Bottrill's brother said she had tried to kill herself before.
She lived alone in a three-bedroomed house and would have had to pay a spare room subsidy, branded the "bedroom tax" by critics.
'It's my life'In her suicide letter, Mrs Bottrill told her family she could no longer cope.
"It's my life, the only people to blame are the government," she wrote.
Solihull Council had offered Mrs Bottrill another property to live in about six miles away and she was considering whether to move there at the time of her death.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "This is a tragic case. Our sympathies are with her family.
"There are often complex reasons as to why people may commit suicide and we would not comment further."
Samaritans told BBC News "although a catalyst may appear to be obvious, suicide is seldom the result of a single factor or event and is likely to have several interrelated causes".
'Bedroom tax' lorry death was suicide
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