Staff who failed to meet sanctions targets each month were threatened with disciplinary action, he claims.
The PCS disputes the Department of Work and Pensions' (DWP) claim that sanctions targets do not exist and that sanctions are only imposed as a "last resort".
It says the emails reveal how staff are pressurised to meet sanctions targets, seemingly regardless of whether the penalty is appropriate.
Stephen Timms, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, said the admission that officials fabricated quotes should lead to sanctions targets for Jobcentre staff to be scrapped.
MPs heard evidence from the PCS union that job centre staff were threatened with performance reviews if they did not instigate sufficient sanctions on claimants, and that managers drew up sanctions targets for staff, a claim the DWP denied.
Where the Treasury Department has licensing discretion, it has exercised it carefully and strategically to exert the maximum pressure on sanctioned targets while preserving the efficacy of the overall sanctions program.
"Instead of fabricating quotes pretending the system is working, he should scrap unfair sanctions targets for jobcentre staff and do more to protect vulnerable people from facing benefit sanctions".
Jobcentres, we heard, allegedly harrass vulnerable jobseekers, "tripping them up" so they can stop their benefits and hit management-imposed sanctions targets (or as the Department for Work and Pensions would have it, "expectations").
And the America First types in the administration could push back on and limit future lists of sanctions targets under the GMA or other laws.
The latest round of U.S. sanctions targets some of the richest men close to Vladimir Putin, but one name comes with particularly personal significance: Kirill Shamalov, 36, the businessman reputed to have married one of Putin's daughters.
The additional financial sanctions target 20 new individuals, including eight officials previously identified by the European Union.
