Woman took her own life hours before DWP agreed long-delayed PIP claim | Disability News Service
It’s 11 years – possibly more – since This Site started campaigning for an end to the senseless deaths of sick and disabled benefit claimants… and they are still dying due to Tory ignorance and cruelty:
A young disabled woman took her own life nine months after submitting an application for a disability benefit, which was finally awarded just hours after she died, an inquiry by a committee of MPs has been told.
The Commons work and pensions committee has been told how the 24-year-old’s claim had been held up for months because of flaws within the application process.
Her mother has told the committee that the “mental health impact” of the “hurdles” in the application process “should not be underestimated”.
Her evidence again raises serious concerns about flaws and delays within the personal independence payment (PIP) system.
Following her death, DWP identified numerous errors in how her claim had been dealt with, according to the statement.
Disability Rights UK [has] called for a public inquiry to “learn the truth about what has happened in cases of benefit related deaths and serious harm”.
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How bloody many times we told our MPs how many inquirys have they held yet more and more people’s are still taking their lives nothing has changed it’s about time traitors gate is reopened for this lot