Psychologists warn benefit sanctions are damaging people’s health and must be suspended
The British Psychological Society (BPS) has joined forces with other psychological bodies to call on the UK Government to suspend its cruel and degrading benefit sanctions regime.
BPS says the benefit sanctions regime, where vulnerable people can have payments docked for weeks or months at a time for failing to adhere to often unreasonable requirements, does not help people back to work and damages their mental health.
The call comes in response to the Government’s ‘Improving Lives’ consultation and following a recent report from the National Audit Office, which found there is little evidence to prove sanctions encourage people to look for work or offer value for money to taxpayers.
Benefit sanctions can also result in destitution, hardship, widespread anxiety and feelings of disempowerment, the psychological bodies say.
Source: Benefit sanctions are damaging people’s health and must be suspended, say psychologists
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yes some of our groups here in derbyshire such as MHAG do challenge the system they are being cut or closed down a meeting recently had 70 people there it got zero reporting from the media shame!! tony fisher long term mh sufferer
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mental-health-provision-in-derbyshire?source=facebook-share-button&time=1484175624
I still for the life of me, cannot fathom how any Tory MP sleeps at night, knowing what we (including they) all know about the benefits system in general and the sanctions regime in particular. Do they just shut their eyes to it in blind obedience, or can a group of people be that mind-numbingly callous? It really is beyond me.
Psychologists know it, 90% of the working class could have told you that the question is what can be done to stop them and the answer is simple nothing Democracy as gone and we are on the road to Fascism with total control 1830’s here we come
Not to mention starving or freezing to death, because the very bottom part of maslow hierarchy is not being met.
The tories have all the evidence, they know what the damage they’re causing but they couldn’t care less and will just carry on with their agenda!