Fit for work?
More than ninety people a month are dying shortly after being declared fit to work by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Statistics released by the DWP, after a freedom of information request, showed that between December 2011 and February 2014 2,380 people who had their employment and support allowance (ESA) was stopped when a work capability assessment found they were “fit for work”, died shortly after. Still the DWP is defending these figures, claiming they “prove no causal effect between benefits and mortality”. Earlier in the same week the DWP was heavily criticised for a leaflet...