Coroner criticises benefits rules after vulnerable claimant’s death
by Chaminda Jayanetti from World news | The Guardian on (#6K7SN)
DWP missed many chances to act as woman's mental health declined while under overpayment investigation
A coroner has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after a woman died from an overdose in the wake of a six-month official investigation that left her with soaring universal credit debts.
Fiona Butler, the assistant coroner for Rutland and North Leicestershire, wrote a Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report to the DWP highlighting its failures to respond to the victim's mental health issues.
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