Tories admit thousands of deaths, months after PIP refusals. How do they know? Archived Message
Posted by Gerard on February 5, 2019, 4:36 pm, in reply to "Mark Smith, 46, suffers from cervical myelopathy and he is in need of disability payments to survive"
"..how does Sarah Newton know that 7,990 people died within six months of having their claim for Personal Independence Payment rejected? The figure itseslf is bad enough but the possibility of a cover-up lasting many years would be a massive scandal. We’ve had no report of any change in DWP monitoring policy. Yet Alex Tiffin, on his blog Universal Credit Sufferer, reported that Labour MP Madeline Moon had received a response to a written question, saying: “Of the 3.1 million people who claimed PIP between April 2013 and April 2018, 7,990 died within 6 months of having their claim REJECTED. “‘3,680 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants died within three months of their initial application being disallowed.'” It has also been revealed that “5,290 claimants who’d applied under the Special Rules for Terminally Ill people (SRTI), (those [who have] a terminal disease with less than 6 months to live), died before the DWP made a decision on their claim”. If the figures on PIP claimants who died three months and six months after their claims were rejected are known to the DWP now, it seems likely that the figures on other sickness and disability claimants were known when my Freedom of Information request was slowly working its way past the obstacles the Tories kept putting in its way – and they lied about it." https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2019/02/05/disability-deaths-scandal-tories-admit-thousands-of-deaths-months-after-pip-refusals-how-do-they-know/
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