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Michael O’Sullivan scandal: DWP twice pushed dad-of-two to suicide bids

By John Pring on 23rd October 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Michael O’Sullivan scandal: DWP twice pushed dad-of-two to suicide bids
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A disabled man whose suicide led a coroner to deliver a ground-breaking verdict that his death was triggered by being found “fit for work” had already tried to take his own life because of government attempts to force him back to […]

Michael O’Sullivan scandal: Inquest notes expose shocking failings of WCA system

By John Pring on 23rd October 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Michael O’Sullivan scandal: Inquest notes expose shocking failings of WCA system
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The shocking failings of the work capability assessment system – and the healthcare assessors who are paid to police it – have been exposed by the family of one of its victims. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last month how a […]

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