Cutting Benefit deaths

fullfact.org/economy/dwp_publishes_benefit_claimant_deaths-47572

Full Fact saying what we can and cannot read into the figures.

This is the website, Stansgran, from the man who requested the information. It took over two years for IDS to release the information, having initially said they did not have the figures.

voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/08/28/many-commiserations-on-your-unqualified-success-thecritique-archives/

Lots on it. Do not stop at the first ads.

They were released after a journalist requested them under the Freedom of Information act. The government tried to block it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/over-4000-people-have-died-soon-after-being-found-fit-to-work-by-the-dwps-benefit-tests-10474474.html

Where are the figures from? I would like to know where I can find them and if it's a reputable source. Thank you if you can Trisher

I think classing somebody who is dying as "fit for work" is ridiculous. And funerals cost so much. Anyway you look at it it's horrific.

That does seem okay to me, too.
The statistics, though, are about people whose benefit was cut because they were deemed to be "fit for work", which I'm guessing did not happen to your MiL.

Maybe their benefits were cut as they were long term patients in hospital because they were very ill? I know that happened to my MiL and it seemed OK to us as she was not going to be coming out.

They probably hadn't found work, just got told to do so and got their benefits cut. Not very happy-making.

It cannot be justified , I suppose some will say - well they were happy for the last two weeks of their lives if they had found work

What is so frightening is we have this government for five years