The phrase "allowance sanction" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts related to financial or regulatory approvals, but clarity is essential.
Example: "The committee decided to implement an allowance sanction for the budget overruns."
Alternatives: "budget approval" or "funding authorization".
Cuts to welfare payments which came into force in April included below-inflation rises in benefits, new Jobseekers' Allowance sanctions and the reassessment of invalidity benefits.
Then there are jobseeker's allowance sanctions, and the complexities of employment support that fall particularly cruelly on people teetering on the edge of homelessness.
Citizens Advice has seen a 60% increase in the number of problems related to Jobseekers' Allowance sanctions since the minimum sanction period was increased from one week to four weeks in October 2012.
Latest figures for December 2014 show job seeker allowance sanctions numbers fell to 700,000, as job market conditions improved, though rates, expressed as a percentage of claimants, fell only marginally.
CAS said in its report: The rate of jobseeker's allowance sanctions has more than doubled since 2010.
Under the coalition, the annual number of Jobseeker Allowance and Employment Support Allowance sanctions has almost doubled.
"Minimum JSA [jobseeker's allowance] sanction," she began, "went from two weeks to four weeks and the maximum went from six months to three years.
Research from Homeless Link found that while 3% of those claiming jobseeker's allowance were sanctioned, this rose to almost a third among homeless people.
Research into benefit sanctions, which normally occur when jobseekers fail to turn up for Jobcentre appointments, found that just 3% of people who receive jobseeker's allowance are sanctioned – but among homeless people this rises to 33%.
In the first quarter of 2013, 3,574 people on Employment and Support Allowance were "sanctioned".
