The scandal of wrongly sanctioning people and depriving them of all benefit for either 4 weeks, 13 weeks or (almost unbelievably) 156 weeks for trivial, ill-considered or utterly unjustified reasons is too little understood by the general public. I will quote a few examples from my own constituency experience or from Citizens Advice across the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Jobseekers Allowance’
A million people were sanctioned and deprived of benefit in the last year
Apr 2nd, 2014 by Michael Meacher.
Labour’s despicable secret deal
Mar 25th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.It now emerges that Labour did a secret deal with the DWP that the latter would set up an independent inquiry into the use of sanctions against job-seekers in return for Labour supporting emergency legislation – the Jobseekers (Back-to-Work Schemes) Bill which passed all its stages in the Commons last Tuesday – which established the […]
