Sentences with phrase «sanctioning people on benefits»

Labour's Jim Murphy and the Conservatives» Ruth Davidson clashed over targets for sanctioning people on benefits.

Not exact matches

More people could be pushed into Britain's informal economy because of new government sanctions imposed on benefit claimants, a think - tank has claimed.

The Tory Work and Pensions secretary said 75 % of people who have had their benefits stopped under his department's cruel sanctions regime said it helped them «focus and get on.»

Chief executive Paul Farmer said: «The government has proposed to sanction anyone turning down «reasonable offers of employment», but people should not be forced to accept work that risks damaging their mental health, putting them back on benefits and back at square one.

«The government's rhetoric on draconian benefits sanctions completely ignores the real problems stopping people holding down regular work,» he said.

Official figures in the first quarter of 2014 found a huge increase in sanctions against people reliant on ESA sickness benefit.

Previously, a person on public assistance who missed work could be subject to an automated, computerized sanction, that could lead to the suspension of benefits for six months.

While backtracking on using the term, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate said she will continue to emphasize that people of color who've been unjustly punished by anti-drug laws should benefit from the government's sanctioning of weed.

The central question was whether the wife of a person subject to the sanctions regime was required to obtain a licence from HM Treasury and comply with strict requirements before using state benefits — on the basis that the funds might «benefit» the listed person (her husband).