A woman dies and her husband gives up his job to look after the children. A war wound pushes another man into unemployment-then theft. An asthmatic mother with a handicapped child can't move out of a damp and fungus-ridden council house. All are getting ever-deeper into debt, scraping by on social security survival money. It could happen to almost anyone. The official system doesn't seem to help. Through the winter thousands of families, unable to meet their heating bills, get their electricity cut off. Increasing numbers of people have to live in unfit accommodation. And the more they try to improve their lives, the worse their plight becomes. They're trapped. Jack Pizzey reports.