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Welfare sanctions are killing people with chronic illnesses such as type 1 diabetes

Welfare sanctions are killing people with chronic illnesses such as type 1 diabetes

David Clapson

The sister of David Clapson, a 59-year-old ex-soldier who died in 2013 after he was sanctioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), issued a judicial review and human rights claim in the High Court last year, challenging the refusal by the Senior Coroner for Hertfordshire to hold an inquest into her brother’s death.

Clapson, who had type 1 insulin dependent diabetes, was…

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A tale of two suicides and a very undemocratic, inconsistent government

A tale of two suicides and a very undemocratic, inconsistent government

“No, we have not carried out a review […] you cannot make allegations about individual cases, in tragic cases where obviously things go badly wrong, you can’t suddenly say this is directly as a result of government policy”– Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 5 May 2015.

Back in July, the Information Commissioner’s Office opened an investigation into four of the UK’s…

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'No one should die penniless and alone': the victims of Britain's harsh welfare sanctions

Amelia Gentleman: David Clapson was found dead last year after his benefits were stopped on the grounds that he wasn't taking the search for work seriously. He had an empty stomach, and just £3.44 to his name. Now thousands of other vulnerable claimants are being left in similar by the government's tough new welfare sanctions

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'No One Should Die Penniless And Alone': The Victims Of Britain's Harsh Welfare Sanctions

"We know that David Clapson was actively searching for work when he died because a pile of CVs he had just printed out was found a few metres from his body. The last time he spoke to his sister, a few days before he died, he told her he was waiting to hear back about an application he had made to the supermarket chain Lidl.

"But officials at the Jobcentre believed he was not taking his search for work seriously enough, and early last July, they sanctioned him – cutting off his benefit payments entirely, as a punishment for his failure to attend two appointments.

"Clapson, 59, who had diabetes, died in his flat in Stevenage on 20 July 2013, from diabetic ketoacidosis (caused by an acute lack of insulin). When Gill Thompson, his younger sister, discovered his body, she found his electricity had been cut off (meaning that the fridge where he kept his insulin was no longer working). There was very little left to eat in the flat – six tea bags, an out-of-date tin of sardines and a can of tomato soup. His pay-as-you-go mobile phone had just 5p credit left on it and he had only £3.44 in his bank account. The autopsy notes reveal that his stomach was empty..."

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Slave #Britain: Duncan Smith’s proxy murder. Ex-soldier’s death due to benefits sanctions (#UK #bedroomtax #welfare #ids)

Slave #Britain: Duncan Smith’s proxy murder. Ex-soldier’s death due to benefits sanctions (#UK #bedroomtax #welfare #ids)

Another person has died as a direct result of Duncan Smith’s draconian welfare reforms.

Ex-soldier, David Clapson, 59, died of diabetic ketoacidosis because he could not afford the electricity needed to run the refrigerator where he kept his insulin, died with no food in his stomach and only £3.44 in his account, the coroner in Stevenage has found.

David was penalised under the draconian new…

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