Originally posted on UNEMPLOYED IN TYNE & WEAR:
MP Debbie Abrahams has
revealed that Oxford academics will report next month on what has
happened to half a million jobseekers allowance (JSA) claimants who were
sanctioned and subsequently disappeared from official employment
statistics.
The Oxford University study led by Professor David Stuckler and Dr. Rachel Loopstra,
is in the process of analysing what has happened to the 4.5 million
people who have been sanctioned under the Coalition government’s
sanctioning regime.
Their research will be published in full later this month for full peer review. According to Abrahams:
“Since the government’s regulations
came into effect in October 2012 about half of all sanction decisions
have led to people on JSA having their social security payments cut for a
least 4 weeks, affecting over 2 million people.
“Of those sanctioned, one in four
leave JSA, and their preliminary statistical analysis is revealing that
most of those who leave do so…
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