DWP Acknowledges Missed Opportunities in Handling Vulnerable Disabled Woman, Reveals Ongoing Safeguarding Flaw in Benefit System
Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom – The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has acknowledged overlooking crucial opportunities to identify the “vulnerability” of a disabled woman, which ultimately led to her death and exposed flaws in the universal credit benefits system. Nazerine Anderson, known as Naz, tragically passed away in June last year, with her death connected by a coroner to shortcomings within the DWP’s handling of her universal credit claim. The DWP admitted to key …