Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
(asked on 27th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the effect of benefit sanctions on levels of poverty.
This question was answered on 2nd November 2015
The current employment rate of 73.6% is a record high.
Work is the best route out of poverty, and the system of conditionality that underpins the welfare system is the most effective way to support jobseekers into work.