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Post by Moose on Aug 27, 2015 18:58:41 GMT
died within a fortnight of being declared fit for work by ATOS. This whole thing is totally rotten. I am not saying - before Alan says it - that there are not people out there fiddling the system. It's fairly obvious, though, that these people were not. This should never have happened.
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Post by JoeP on Aug 27, 2015 20:01:04 GMT
Do you have a link for this?
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Post by tangent on Aug 27, 2015 23:04:20 GMT
This has to be compared with the number of people who would have died anyway. The number who would have died is difficult to estimate because many of those who were declared fit for work would have been physically unwell. However, if we assume ATOS declared 50% of unemployed people (50% of 2.34 million, Wiki) unfit for work, and that they were all physically well and mostly in the age range 25 to 44, then we would expect 73 of them to have died within two weeks regardless of being declared fit for work ( mortality rate). If you're saying 2400 actually died then it is horrific.
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Post by Moose on Aug 28, 2015 0:51:48 GMT
you're talking about 'unemployed' people. This is people who were already on incapacity and failed a medlcal, I presume.
And the link is to the Daily Mail. If even they are not happy then you can bet that something fairly shite is going on
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Post by Miisa on Aug 28, 2015 4:54:10 GMT
My former colleague had a brain aneurysm almost a decade ago and had permanent issues with it but worked part-time. Then a year ago was laid off and was dead within a fortnight of that. I don't know if the epilepsy killed him or if it was suicide, but it is pretty clear that any drastic change in your life like that adds not only physical stress but mental as well.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2015 22:00:58 GMT
My father went through a very difficult time after he lost his job. The company where he worked was broke, so everyone there lost their job, but being 50 at the time and very ill, he did not find a job again. He was declared unfit for work eventually.
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