Subject: Incapacity Benefits: Deaths of recipients (July, 2012 statistical release) See:
http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/adhoc_analysis/2012/incap_decd_recips_0712.pdf
10,600 sick & disabled people died last year within six weeks of their claim ending. This latest statistical release adds some information not covered in this article:
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/04/32-die-a-week-after-failing-in.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
I wish to point out that the DWP improperly responded to my request and did not provide mortality statistics on 2012 ESA claimants; see
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/j63qek
This information certainly must be available as the Department is supposed to be monitoring and modifying systems on a continual basis.
Best wishes.
Samuel Miller.
Samuel Miller
E-Mail: disabilityinliterature@gmail.com
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(Montreal, Canada)
Documents and analysis of deaths.
Posted by Kessa Treedweller:
‘Allow me to introduce researcher John William Brown:
I’m beginning to understand the various figures I’ve been supplied with on the DPAC FB page and it is not simple - I WILL TRY RECAP – IN BRIEF – It is greater than one thinks!
Number of deaths for Jan. to Nov. 2011 = 10,600 - supplied by DWP via Atos from page 6 of following pdf
http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/adhoc_analysis/2012/incap_decd_recips_0712.pdf THIS BREAKS DOWN THUS:
Those with Assessment not complete 2,200 (50.6 per week)
Those in Work Related Activity Group 1,300 (29.9 per week)
Those in Support Group 7,100 (153.6 per week)
Total number of deaths 10,600 (to nearest 100)
Jan to Nov inclusive is 11 months = 47.5 weeks
10,600 deaths divided by 47.5 weeks = 223.2 deaths per week
Total approximation in EACH group is 223.2 divide by 3
Approximation of deaths in each of 3 groups = 74.4 per week
1. It’s important to know how 73 (74.4) was sourced, and
2. That this number is an average within 3 different groups and
3. That the overall number of deaths is 223.3 per week
See also from Samuel Miller:
United Kingdom Government Denounced for Crimes Against Disabled People to International Criminal Court in The Hague
Deaths and Suicides linked to WCA: more evidence needed for justice
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