Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

(asked on 7th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance claims were subject to a sanction (i) pre-challenge and (ii) post-challenge in 2013-14.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
This question was answered on 14th December 2015

The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.


The latest Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance sanctions statistics can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions



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