Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

(asked on 16th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether jobcentre managers are permitted to set targets for jobcentre advisers on the issuing of sanctions placed on jobseekers.


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Priti Patel
This question was answered on 21st March 2016

There are no benchmarks or targets for the number of referrals resulting in a sanction being applied.

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