National Audit Office to investigate DWP suicide monitoring of social security claimants
by Kitty S Jones
The
National Audit Office is to demand information from Department for Work
and Pensions (DWP) on a ‘serious and important’ issue after ministers
refuse to provide figures on how many people claiming social security
have taken their own lives. The watchdog is to investigate the
government’s monitoring of suicides among welfare claimants amid
longstanding concerns about links between welfare reforms and declining
mental health.
The National
Audit Office (NAO) said it would call on the DWP to reveal what
information it held on the suicides, after ministers refused to provide
an MP with figures on the number of people in the welfare system who had
taken their own lives.
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