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When claimants were told they had to find work, many did.
10.41am GMT Joe Hemming from Atos says that when claimants appeal one of its decisions, that information goes back to the DWP.
Neil Bateman, a welfare rights specialist who acts regularly as an expert witness when claimants are prosecuted, contests the government's figure that benefit fraud costs £1.1bn a year, and argues that real, sophisticated fraud is rare.
The trust said its 400 foodbanks were reporting increased referrals as a result of the bedroom tax, sanctioning (when claimants have their payments stopped for up to six months for infrigements of beneift conditions) and confusion caused by the devolution of social fund crisis loans to local councils in April.
A six-step flowchart for jobcentre staff shows that the four reasons to recommend a food bank when claimants ask for help are hardship caused by benefit changes, benefit payment delays, a benefit advance has been refused, or the advance is not enough to meet their needs.
MR kicks in when claimants of ESA or Employment and Support Allowance (unemployment benefit for people who cannot work as a result of illness or disability) are tested and declared fit for work, and subsequently wish to appeal against that decision.
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This does not require the defendant to intend harm; in Nash v Sheen, a hairdresser who put a tone rinse on the claimant (when the claimant had given permission for a perm) was found liable in battery after it caused a rash.
"When benefit claimants are found guilty of breaking the law they are named and shamed.
The first is that shareholders get paid only when other claimants on a company's cashflow, such as workers, the taxman and creditors, have received their due.
When sanctioned, claimants often do not understand the complex rules that can protect housing benefit payments and are being plunged into further debt unnecessarily.
However, documents obtained under freedom of information laws show there is a "high level process" written by the DWP to be followed when benefit claimants say they are in hardship because of government policy and need food.
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