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ELI5: What's the "Fit to Work" and why are people dying?

American here

I am curious as to what's going on over the Atlantic. What's this program? How did it come to be? Why is it a problem?
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The government had concerns that many people were claiming disability when they were fit for work. So they fetched in a private company to reassess those claiming disability benefits. There has been much concern that they were overly zealous in finding people "fit for work". Many of those carrying out the assessment were not doctors. There have been many petitions calling for the minister to release figures showing how many who have bee deemed fit for work have died. After trying many tactics to avoid giving out the figures the ministry finally released those figures today.   
The figures show about 2,800 people died within two weeks of being declared fit for work. However because the causes of death are not disclosed there is much disagreement as to how many of those deaths can be linked to the decision to class them as fit for work.