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Tuesday 22 October 2019

Kitty S Jones: NAO to investigate DWP suicide monitoring of social security claimants

From Kitty S Jones 'Politics & Insights' blog

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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