So-called charity the YMCA have issued a disgusting statement today in which they acknowledge that benefit sanctions can lead to debt, along with worsened physical or mental health and yet they still claim to support this vicious regime. This vile attempt to justify their own role in stopping young people’s benefits comes on the day that the DWP admitted a huge increase in the numbers of benefit claims sanctioned in the last year.
Perhaps most contemptuously of all, they attempt to use the young people who makes use of their services to justify this grotesque hypocrisy. According to the YMCA: “there is support in principle amongst YMCAs and the vulnerable young people we work with for some form of sanctions.”
They honestly expect people to believe that young people are just crying out to have their benefits stopped and be driven to homelessness, begging or even attempting suicide. And like Jesus’ little fucking helpers the YMCA are only too happy to comply by forcing people to work unpaid in their charity shops or face benefits being stopped.
The YMCA want to have their cake and eat it, pretending to care about the people they impoverish in gushing press releases on their website whilst quietly forcing people to work without pay behind the scenes. Don’t let them get away with it, tell them what you think on twitter @YMCA_England and facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/THEYMCA