Sentence examples for sanction benefits from inspiring English sources
Civil servants at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) who sanction benefits claimants are classic bureaucrats.
An internal inquiry at the Department for Work and Pensions into the covert regime of welfare targets at jobcentres says it has found no evidence of the practice – yet it accepts that action is taken against those jobcentres that do not sanction benefits as much as others.
The Malvern jobcentre newsletter states: "We are now into the new sanctions regime … and we are currently one of the worst performing offices with sanction benefit referrals and unless we improve we will put under special measures.
The government has launched an inquiry after it was forced to admit that jobcentres have been setting targets and league tables to sanction benefit claimants despite assurances to parliament this week that no such targets were being set.
Fresh written proof has been leaked showing that jobcentre staff are being set targets to sanction benefit claimants, and warned they will face disciplinary action if they do not meet the targets.
Back in the real world, sanctioned benefits claimants are being forced into homelessness and resorting to food banks.
Iain Duncan Smith has denied setting staff targets for sanctioning benefits claimants; but this paper has found evidence, not only of targets but even league tables for job centres to compete against each other in keeping claimants away from their money.
Administrative delays paying benefits, punitive sanctions, benefit changes and employment and support allowance stoppages directly account for approximately half of referrals to our food bank.
The scheme is intended to be mandatory, and failure to participate results in a sanction on benefits, as with MWA.
The jobcentre had sanctioned his benefits and he had had no money for 17 weeks.
