I decessi spingono i parlamentari a richiedere un migliore supporto per i richiedenti a benefici vulnerabili
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/15/mps-call-for-increased-protections-for-vulnerable-benefit-claimants
di Coolnumber11
I decessi spingono i parlamentari a richiedere un migliore supporto per i richiedenti a benefici vulnerabili
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/15/mps-call-for-increased-protections-for-vulnerable-benefit-claimants
di Coolnumber11
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> A cross-party committee of MPs has called for greater protections for vulnerable benefit claimants after hundreds of cases of deaths and serious harms linked to safeguarding failures by welfare officials.
>The work and pensions select committee said many of these cases, which include instances where claimants took their own lives, could have been prevented had the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) discharged its responsibilities effectively.
>It cited the cases of Errol Graham, a disabled man with a long history of mental illness, who starved to death in 2018 after his benefits were cut off, and Philippa Day, a mother wrongly deprived of disability benefits for months, who died in 2019 after taking an overdose.
>In both instances, coroners identified failures by DWP officials to properly take into account the acute difficulties both claimants faced in engaging with a benefits system they had found to be alienating and unsupportive.
>These high-profile cases, and the DWP’s prioritisation of cost-cutting over “genuine care and support” for vulnerable people in recent years, had “sorely damaged” public and claimant trust in the system, the committee said.
>It published testimonies from benefit claimants saying their interactions with the DWP made them anxious, stressed and traumatised. One said it felt as if “a system that is meant to wrap its arms around us is strangling us”.
>Social security policies such as benefit sanctions and deductions were too often misapplied to vulnerable claimants, the committee said, leaving those individuals facing substantial hardship and putting them at risk of harm.
>The committee chair, Labour’s Debbie Abrahams, said “deep-rooted” cultural change in the DWP was desperately needed to improve its treatment of vulnerable claimants.
System sounds like it treats every claimant as a cheat until proven otherwise but they can’t use evidence from their doctor. So it’s down to whims of someone with no medical training in disability to judge if they appear sick enough
So you end up throwing vulnerable people to the wolves
It’s ideological tho the deaths are part of the labour strategy to remove waste from the system. It’s designed this way, it’s a modern day death camp where people are pushed to the edge and ultimately to take their own lives so the government is blameless and money is saved.
Ian Duncan Smith was the first leader of the digital deathcamp known as universal credit.
We will never forget the 100s of thousands that have died due to sanctions and bullying the most vulnerable in our society.
MPs are just as ignorant as they come, what use is a Qualified Medical Doctor, and other Medical staff when some one without a clue reading some arse wipe questionnaire agreed and set by some pen pushing crowd of idiots can pick and choose what box to pop claimants in?
I have been there, and had to fight the DWP all the way to the Tribunal, where I totally obliterated them. Due to that experience I take on voluntary cases for people who have no representation and as each year passes they make it harder to challenge their insane descriptions made.