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More than 40,000 people died within a year of being declared fit for work, according to new figures from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).Some 2,017,070 people were the subject of a Work Capability Assessment between May 2010 and February 2013.The number of those claimants who died within a year of a decision about fitness to work was 40,680.The DWP says any causal effect between benefits and mortality cannot be assumed from these statistics.But Nottingham North MP Graham Allen, who...