Benefit sanctions don't help people into work internal DWP report finds

The Government has been urged to reform universal credit sanctions after a long-awaited report revealed they have a negative impact on people finding work and earning more money ⬇️ ChaplainChloe explains the findings

in moving people into employment after ministers initially refused to make it public.

And Labour said the findings “reveal how the Tories are failing to help people into decent well paid jobs”. “How many more people need to wear the mental and physical damage of this policy before the Government admits it doesn’t work?” The Committee said, at the time: “It is something else entirely for a sanction to affect someone’s physical and mental well-being, drive them into debt and leave them on the brink of destitution. We agree that research to understand the impact of sanctions would be complicated, but we do not agree that this is a reason for the DWP not to try.”

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