Well done the Tory Government

[Auntie Andy]

Another massive success for the Torys.

Sanction the unemployed and the poor, it's the Tory way.

“Sanctions generally delivered poor outcomes, including debt, poverty and reliance on charities such as food banks, the study found. Often imposed for trivial and seemingly cruel reasons, they frequently triggered high levels of stress, anxiety and depression”.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...e-and-damaging

Vile, nasty, hateful, vindictive. Always have been and always will be.

Their favourite pastime though is attacking the sick and the disabled.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ministers-slammed-unfit-purpose-benefits-12574952

[Nick]

Another massive success for the Torys.

Sanction the unemployed and the poor, it's the Tory way.

“Sanctions generally delivered poor outcomes, including debt, poverty and reliance on charities such as food banks, the study found. Often imposed for trivial and seemingly cruel reasons, they frequently triggered high levels of stress, anxiety and depression”.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...e-and-damaging

Vile, nasty, hateful, vindictive. Always have been and always will be.

Their favourite pastime though is attacking the sick and the disabled.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...efits-12574952

I'm sure Eric will be along in a moment castigating you for posting an article without comment.

[Auntie Andy]

I'm sure Eric will be along in a moment castigating you for posting an article without comment.

Look again honey, I’ve made my comments quite clear.

[Wales-Bales]

Savage minds, no compassion whatsoever.

[Organ Morgan.]

I notice this sanction regime will include Working Tax Credit claimants who are in work when they switch to claiming it under Universal Credit, and that the Disability Premium will disappear for those who are ill which will make them financially worse off and negatively impact their conditions further no doubt.

I can see that JSA and Housing Benefit are two of the six benefits amalgamated in UC which is made as a single payment. What would happen to an unemployed renter if their JSA is sanctioned - would both their JSA and Housing Benefit cease for the sanction period?

I can't get angry about these changes as 1, they don't affect me; and 2, Labour or a Labour led coalition future government will retain this and every other welfare reform except for, perhaps, the bedroom tax, as a bone to its activists for them to chirp that fundamental differences exist between the blue and red sides of the same Political Class.

[Nick]

Ffs it was the Guardian, so obviously totally unbiased as are welfare confidentiality and the users they interviewed.