UK: Major study on how benefit sanctions hit health is SCRAPPED

Daily Mirror: Chaminda Jayanetti

Major study on how benefit sanctions hit health is SCRAPPED after DWP pulls out

A major study on how benefit sanctions hit poor Brits’ health has been scrapped after Tory ministers quietly pulled out.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has decided "not to proceed” with a long-planned project by the University of Glasgow.

The research would have looked at links between benefits sanctions and family breakdown, depression and even suicide.

But Prof Nick Bailey, who was heading the study, told the Mirror it could no longer go ahead after the DWP decided not to share data.

Prof Bailey said the DWP had given no reason for pulling the plug, adding: “We've been told that the minister does not want to make this data available to us.

“I think it's really disappointing.”

More at link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/major-study-how-benefit-sanctions-28202766

 

So surprising! They have been failing to produce the data on how 300k excess deaths have occurred on those on benefits for the past 14 years already.