Damien

What cookie said. This data is rather meaningless without knowing more. People do die, that's what we all will do after all, and without meaning to be cruel we're looking at a group who are often in poor health.

Maybe if we compared it against previous data for people on these benefits and see what the numbers are before the reforms then we'll have a better idea. Realistically we should expect a minor drop between that data and what we have now (as medical science is improving - as is life expectancy).