DWP overturn fit-to-work decision 7 months after claimant suffers fatal heart attack

The DWP has overturned a fit-to-work decision seven months after the claimant suffered a fatal heart attack. In a nod to the film I, Daniel Blake Jeff Hayward, from Clitheroe, Lancashire, had been deemed unfit to work by his GP. But after losing his job of more than 25 years he was refused employment support allowance (ESA) after a health assessor awarded him no disability points. He went through five stages of applications and appeals, The Guardian has reported, but it was only last month...

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