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The final inquest into the death of Jodey Whiting, who died aged 42 following the termination of her Employment Support Allowance by the DWP, is expected to take place in Spring 2024.
At the first inquest into Jodey's death, the coroner refused her mother's request to consider the potential role of the DWP in Jodey’s decision to take her own life. The DWP had stopped Jodey's benefits, a decision overturned six weeks after her death.
For years, dozens of bereaved families have been campaigning for an investigation into deaths of benefit claimants - now there is an inquiry into safeguarding by the DWP
Jodey Whiting of Stockton-on-Tees died in 2017 about two weeks after her disability benefit was stopped
Jodey Whiting died in February 2017 just days after her disability benefits were wrongfully stopped.