Work and Pensions Committee
10 June 2026
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Work and Pensions Committee House of Commons
00:00 - 02:11
Speaker 1
Hello and a warm welcome to the first session of our safeguarding vulnerable claimants inquiry one year on. Just I'd like to start if I may by just making an opening remarks. It was last May that we published our report safeguarding vulnerable claimants and our fantastic panel here were part of the expert witnesses who we received evidence from in the previous inquiry. That report was published as I say last last May.
The driver for this inquiry was the deaths of vulnerable claimants, social security claimants, who we were very, very concerned about. Since 2020, more than 240 people have had internal DWP process reviews into the deaths and serious harms that have occurred to claimants. We believe that that is just the tip of the iceberg. On top of this, we know that there have been nine prevention of future deaths reports from coroners in concerns to the deaths about the deaths of claimants. Most recently, for example, Jade Logan, a 28-year-old mother, took her own life in May last year, and that was because of her PIP, personal independence payment, being stop being stopped.
It was remarkably reminiscence of Philippa Day, who died under similar circumstances.
We know that there have been 1,300 deaths of people who've been waiting for personal independence payment assessments. We also know that people on employment support allowance support group are six times more likely to die compared to the working-age population as a whole. Our report made 21 recommendations.
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