Partner of "distraught" ESA claimant says DWP drove him to his death!

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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/partner-of-distraught-esa-claimant-says-dwp-drove-him-to-his-death/

I'm sorry but what the hell?! Which suited jobsworth in the DWP cocked up so bad that a guy died?!

Thoughts?

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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Shocking, just shocking. Poor guy and poor partner.
  • cupcake88
    cupcake88 Posts: 1,414 Trailblazing
    This is so sad 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    So sad bit too familiar happens too much but still nothing changes 
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,782 Connected
    janer1967 said:
    So sad bit too familiar happens too much but still nothing changes 
    Indeed, like I've said for years this isn't the first time it's happened and won't be the last, too many heartless pen pushing jobsworths in the DWP who get stuff like this completely and utterly wrong IMO.

  • shell177
    shell177 Online Community Member Posts: 16 Listener
    I have to phone them tomorrow as they have not paid me my ESA and its making me ill 
  • Geoark
    Geoark Online Community Member Posts: 1,469 Championing
    @woodbine, an opinion I believe.

    For starters, he never got to finish the assessment so it would not have been sent to the DWP.

    They are following a legal process, one set up by the Conservatives with a specific aim to cut the cost of disability benefits amongst others. Personally, my opinion is their sheer contempt for the public has been shown a lot in the lasts 12 months.

    They were losing cases at tribunal, so brought in mandatory reconsideration, to reduce this. The number of cases they lost rose, but the number of people appealing fell, as more people decided not to fight the decision. Hence the claim that mandatory reconsideration had been successful.

    Meanwhile, the companies who are contracted get the blame, DWP staff get the blame, and the Conservatives keep getting elected back in. Why does it keep happening? If it is not because it is doing what they wanted in the first place it would have been overhauled by now.
  • Geoark
    Geoark Online Community Member Posts: 1,469 Championing
    Hi @shell177

    How did the phone call go and how are you feeling now?

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