The UK’s ‘racist’ DWP has sanctioned ethnic minorities disproportionately more than white people, according to its own figures.

Here’s The Canary:

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released a new breakdown of  statistics for the first time on sanctions by ethnicity for Universal Credit… The DWP sanctions data applied to the year up to the end of April 2024.

Crucially, as the Guardian reported, this revealed that:

Black and minority ethnic benefit claimants are disproportionately likely to be hit with universal credit sanctions – financial penalties typically running into hundreds of pounds – according to official statistics unveiled for the first time.

Black universal credit claimants were 58% more likely to be sanctioned than white claimants, mixed ethnic groups were 72% more likely and Asians 5% more likely, according to the figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

In short, the DWP has been sanctioning Black, brown, and Asian claimants disproportionately more often than white claimants.

The article goes on to suggest that the DWP is institutionally racist, quoting other sources who suggest the same thing and questioning why mainstream news sources haven’t done the same.

This Writer is sure there are plausible reasons that could be put forward for the disproportionate number of people from ethnic minorities being sanctioned.

I just can’t think of any, right now.

And I wonder why the DWP hasn’t provided explanatory notes.

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