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Some figures on suicides--as the article says, the real number is probably higher:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/07/dwp-benefit-related-suicide-numbers-not-true-figure-says-watchdog-nao
If you want the grimmest reading you've had for a while, look at this--well out of date now, it's only got worse since then.
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2014/10/21/uk-welfare-reform-deaths-updated-list-october-21st-2014/
Some of the links no longer work, and, bizarrely, this one ...
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/inquest-hears-of-cumbrian-dad-s-health-benefits-worries-1.966288
... becomes this when you try to follow it:
https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/1.ballet-star-shows-off-charity-portraits/