Benefit sanctions achieve little more than increasing anxiety and depression – LSE
Benefit sanctions lead to increases in claimants’ anxiety and depression, and a re-assessment of the role of sanctions is needed …
Category Archives: Universal Credit
Take part in the online day of action against Universal Credit sanctions
Today – July 1 – conditionality and sanctions return to the UK’s benefit system. This means the two million people …
Covid-19-related Universal Credit claimants will face sanctions for first time
If you’ve claimed Universal Credit as a result of the Covid-19 crisis – brace yourself! From June 30, you’ll be …
The Tory disablist double-bind: risk your life at work – or risk it by being denied benefits
Isn’t this the Conservative government turning the screw on people with disabilities – and on parents – yet again? People …
Can new anti-Universal Credit alliance really mirror the anti-Poll Tax campaign?
Can these campaign groups match the intensity and mass feeling of the anti-Poll Tax campaign of 1990? This Writer can’t …
DWP abandons legal battle over ‘perverse’ Universal Credit fault
This is a surprise – the Department for Work and Pensions has actually seen the light and done the right …
Former Work & Pensions Secretary wants Universal Credit raise for families? Tough.
Did Stephen Crabb not read the memos when he was running the department responsible for benefits? The Tories aren’t interested …
How many people does the government owe because of Universal Credit payday prejudice?
Let’s answer the question in the headline straight away: it seems 85,000 people may be able to claim compensation because …
DWP faces legal action over lost benefit cash – from no fewer than 275 people with disabilities
It seems people with disabilities are seizing the opportunity granted them by a landmark court ruling – and taking legal …
Now it seems DWP bosses have abandoned social distancing for boozy parties
They just can’t help themselves, can they? Bosses at the Job Centre in Greenock followed the example of their Tory …