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DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide

By John Pring on 16th July 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rejected a coroner’s call to act to prevent benefit claimants taking their own lives, following the suicide of a young woman who had told her work coach that she intended to kill herself. Documents […]

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 […]

Government hides information on death of Michael O’Sullivan

By John Pring on 16th October 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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The government is refusing to release information that would reveal which ministers and civil servants decided how to respond to the death of a man who killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work”. Disability News Service […]

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