Punishing Poverty: A review of benefits sanctions and their impacts on clients and claimants

Reblogged from kittysjones:

Benefits sanctions are financial penalties that are given to people who are deemed to have not met the conditions for claiming benefits. The social security system has always been based on people meeting certain conditions - this has been true for all working-age benefit claimants, with sanctions applicable to those who fail to observe those conditions. This has been the case since its inception.

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