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DWP admits it keeps no record of complaints linked to deaths submitted to the Independent Case Examiner.

What: DWP admits (in response to a freedom of information request from Disability News Service) that it keeps no records of how many of the complaints submitted to the Independent Case Examiner involve a claimant of disability benefits who had died before the complaint was submitted.

Why significant: Further evidence of negligence and a lack of transparency around deaths linked to DWP policies.

Citations

DWP’s latest confession on safety: ‘We keep no record of complaints linked to deaths’, Pring, 2019
FoI 09877 (PDF), 2019