Disabled people are facing punitive sanctions and perverse incentives when trying to claim allowances which are damaging their health and placing barriers in the way of their efforts to seek work. Researchers at the University...
Read how benefit sanctions can affect people’s lives A sanction is a cut or temporary cessation in your benefit if you fail to meet your claimant commitment without good reason. If you do this on...
Jobseekers who are homeless or suffering from a mental health condition will now be able to access hardship payments immediately after a benefit sanction. Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green has announced that jobseekers who are homeless...
The benefits system is “no longer providing an adequate safety net” for the poorest families, with “devastating effects” for vulnerable youngsters, a children’s charity is warning. In a report on recent changes to the welfare...
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