Doesn't anyone actually read the reports?
The 2 weeks refers to the "scan" cycle. They look at the status in 2 weekly periods. At the start of the period they are receiving ESA and by the start of the next 2 week period they are not because they have died. In between those two dates, a "fit for work" decision has been made. That decision could have been made BEFORE they died, therefore any adverse decision COULDN'T have any effect. Even where they died after the decision was made, they may have yet to receive the letter telling them, again it COULDN'T have any effect. They ARE NOT claiming JSA and having to look for work at that stage.
ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE do the reports say the number of people that were claiming JSA and having to look for work at the time of death, but were found "fit for work" a few months earlier. Isn't that the sort of thing that people are looking for?
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Table 2.3 Total number of individuals who flowed off ESA whose date of death was at the same time(3) and of those the number with a WCA decision of “fit for work”, Great Britain: December 2011 to February 2014
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3. Date of death: The WPLS records all claimants and uses information from a series of regular scans from the benefit payment systems, fortnightly for ESA and six-weekly for IB/SDA. The claim end date is sometimes missing and has to be estimated as a date between the scans and to account for this we have identified those whose date of death is up to 14 days after the claim end date for ESA and up to 42 days for IB/SDA.
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