Benefit sanctions found to be ineffective and damaging

Study concludes that punishing claimants triggers profoundly negative outcomesBenefit sanctions are ineffective at getting jobless people into work and are more likely to reduce those affected to poverty, ill-health or even survival crime, the UK’s most extensive study of welfare conditionality has found.The five-year exercise tracking hundreds of claimants concludes that the controversial policy of docking benefits as punishment for alleged failures to comply with jobcentre rules has been little short of disastrous. Continue reading…
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