How can PIP be sanctionable?
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is the new benefit which replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA). DLA was introduced in the UK in 1992, and its main purpose was to compensate for the extra...
View ArticleSanctions: IDS behaving unlawfully on a large scale: Almost 9 out of 10 of...
This article draws unashamedly on David Webster’s excellent briefing following the release in February 2014 of sanction statistics for JSA and ESA claimants by DWP. David Webster, who is Honorary...
View ArticleStop Sanctions : 11th Sept Day of Action
(Report from workshop at national meeting of Anti Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice federation) Fighting Benefit Sanctions The government has a policy of increasing sanctions to force people off...
View ArticleNational Day of Protest Against Sanctions, Bedroom Tax and Benefit Cuts
Thursday 11th September 2014 End Bedroom Tax; No Sanctions for Claimants – No Targets for Staff On 11th September the Anti-Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Campaign is holding a day of protest: say no...
View ArticleEnd Sanctions, Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION 11th...
Tory welfare reform is in crisis. Last week 70 Conservative MPs ignored a three line whip and stayed away from Westminster for the vote on Andrew George’s bedroom tax bill. Protests have beaten back...
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