Most jobseeker agreements ruled unlawful – and the DWP doesn’t care
A reader of my blog has written to me with an update about a case that I referred to her for her expert help some time ago. The appeal against draconian sanctions that she helped our mutual contact to conduct was successful, with the judge ruling that the ‘conditionality’ imposed on a jobseeker was unreasonable – and that the benefit sanction (immediate stoppage) used to punish the supposed miscreant was therefore unlawful.
But the Tory-led government is so single-minded in its determination to penalise benefit claimants for failing to find jobs that don’t exist that it is knowingly ignoring the judicial ruling and the precedent it sets, in order to continue what can only rightly be called persecution of the disadvantaged and vulnerable.
Here’s what she wrote to me:
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Why can’t the European Courts of Human rights do something about this illegal practice, it is appalling. Why individuals such as IDS and Freud are not brought to justice is beyond beggars belief? People are dying and young children suffering and starving as a result of their vile policies. Charities are advertising on TV for donations to poor children in Africa are they blind to what is happening in this country? God help us all.
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When is the JC going to stop the sanctioning of peoples benefits and how many people have to starve to death? We need changes in the law against JC leaving people with no money what so ever.
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