Sentences with phrase «benefit sanctions»
"Benefit sanctions" refers to a penalty imposed on individuals who receive social welfare benefits, like unemployment or government assistance, but fail to meet certain requirements or obligations set by the governing authorities. These sanctions often involve a reduction or complete stoppage of the person's benefits for a certain period of time as a consequence for not fulfilling their responsibilities. Full definition
There was this insane crossover between benefit sanctions and Victorian values.
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The statistics are now included in our benefits statistical summaries and benefit sanctions statistics.
The number of benefit sanctions imposed on job seekers has shot up by 50 % in the space of six months, Politics.co.uk can reveal.
It comes as the DWP admitted using fabricated stories from fictional benefit claimants on a leaflet, which critics say put a positive spin on benefit sanctions.
«Like many people I believe the current benefit sanctions process can be very impersonal, however, I don't want to waste the opportunity of using a Private Members Bill purely to make a protest.
«The government's rhetoric on draconian benefits sanctions completely ignores the real problems stopping people holding down regular work,» he said.
Iain Duncan Smith has refused to resign after his department used made - up quotes in leaflets about hated benefit sanctions.
Law Centre chair, John Nicholson, a barrister at Kenworthys Chambers, said: «Now — when people are facing vicious benefit sanctions, homelessness, escalating racism, cuts in health and education — they need legal advice like never before.»
US evaluations of benefit sanctions have found full family sanctions, in which the entire grant is suspended, have reduced benefit claims.
Inglif - Jones revealed some of the contributing factors: «Benefit sanctions and delays, increasingly low incomes and of course universal credit, financial pressures are on.
Staying housed, battling bailiffs, fighting councils for housing, sorting out benefit sanctions and paying rent arrears, fines and DWP loans really is a full time job.
The SNP's Mhairi Black has dubbed the latest figures from foodbank charity The Trussell Trust «shameful» ahead of her attempt to change the benefits sanction regime.
Black, a member of the work and pensions select committee, is set to introduce a backbench bill aimed at curbing the benefits sanction regime.
Benefit sanctions are imposed by the government for a raft of major and minor infractions of the rules imposed on jobseekers, such as leaving a job or training programme «without good reason» or failing to participate in back - to - work schemes.
Mhairi Black says the Tories» system of benefit sanctions is designed to victimise the most vulnerable in society
In the words of a charity worker: «Women are being forced to sell their bodies for sex for just # 5 because of benefit sanctions.
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