Could Civil Penalties Be The New Benefit Sanctions As Jobcentre Staff Hand Out Fines To Cover Their Own Mistakes?

Reblogged from the void: One of the more insidious aspects of Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms has been the huge amount of power which has been handed over to Jobcentre advisors to harass and bully benefit claimants.  The power to sentence people to forced work along with the massive expansion of benefit sanctions has meant that DWP busy-bodies now have the power to plunge claimants into economic despair seemingly on a whim. Read more… 640 more words Find this even more disturbing in the cases where claimants may have cognitive difficulties and thus be exploited by yet another form of punishment for being poor.... hmmm
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - Category: Mental Illness Authors: Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
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