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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
Savage minds, no compassion whatsoever.
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.
Ffs it was the Guardian, so obviously totally unbiased as are welfare confidentiality and the users they interviewed.
I guess the dichotomy is similar to the approach to undocumented migrants and subsequent Windrush saga. Do you want to persecute X genuine cases to catch the Y who is taking the piss? The governments choice since taking power has been yes, instructed by the people of the UK I must add. I don't like the smell of that and I especially don't like the idea that they will end up sanctioning people who are just genuinely trying to do the right thing.
I SAID HOW MANY PM’S HAS HE SENT YOU, NOW?
I SAID HOW MANY PMs HAS HE SENT YOU, NOW?