[guide.chat] d l a thirty two die a week

From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:58:16 +0100
32 die a week after failing test for new incapacity benefit -?When is the 
torture going to stop and who will stop it???
Posted by victimsofatoscorruption on April 5, 2012
More than a thousand sickness benefit claimants died last year after being 
told to get a job, we can reveal.

We?ve highlighted worries about the controversial medical tests for people 
claiming Employment Support Allowance which are being used to slash the 
country?s welfare bill.

The Government has boasted that more than half of new claimants are found ?fit 
to work? ? failing to mention that over 300,000 have appealed the decision and 
almost 40% have won.

Instead, employment minister Chris Grayling (below) says this ?emphasises what 
a complete waste of human lives the current system has been?.

Here?s another waste of human life.

We?ve used the Freedom of Information Act to discover that, between January and 
August last year, 1,100 claimants died after they were put in the ?work-related 
activity group?.

This group ? which accounted for 21% of all claimants at the last count ? get a 
lower rate of benefit for one year and are expected to go out and find work.

This compares to 5,300 deaths of people who were put in the ?support group? ? 
which accounts for 22% of claimants ? for the most unwell, who get the full, 
no-strings benefit of up to £99.85 a week.

We don?t know how many people died after being found ?fit to work?, the third 
group, as that information was ?not available?.

But we have also found that 1,600 people died before their assessment had been 
completed.

This should take 13 weeks, while the claimant gets a reduced payment of up to 
£67.50 a week, but delays have led to claims the system is in ?meltdown?.

Mr Grayling admitted last month that 35,000 people are waiting longer than 13 
weeks. Commenting on the deaths of claimants, a Department for Work and 
Pensions official said: ?It is possible that the claimant had already closed 
their claim and then subsequently died, meaning that these figures may be 
overestimating the true picture.?

Of course, they?re bound to include some people who died of something 
completely unrelated to their benefit claim.

But there are plenty of tragic cases ? such as that of David Groves (above) who 
died from a heart attack the night before taking his work capability 
assessment.

The 56-year-old, from Staveley, Derbyshire, worked for 40 years as a miner and 
telecoms engineer but stopped on doctors? orders after an earlier heart attack 
and a string of strokes. His widow Sandra said: ?When Dave was called in for a 
medical, he felt like he was back to square one.

?He was in a terrible state by the day he died. It was the stress that killed 
him, I?m sure.?

Stephen Hill, 53, of Duckmanton, Derbyshire, died of a heart attack in 
December, one month after being told he was ?fit to work?, even though he was 
waiting for major heart surgery.

Citizens Advice told us it has found ?a number of cases? of people dying soon 
after being found fit for work.


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