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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
John Pring - Editor of Disability News Service

Thousands of disabled people's deaths linked to DWP's failure to act on benefits flaws

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The Government’s failure to act on warnings about its disability benefits systems has been linked to hundreds – maybe even ­thousands – of suicides and other deaths of disabled people.

A detailed 160-page study published today exposes how the Department for Work and Pensions was alerted more than 40 times to life-threatening systemic flaws, by academics, coroners and its own researchers over the past 30 years.

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