Benefit Sanctions Are Political Admits Welfare To Work Boss As Housing Charities Flee Work Programme
The Chief Executive of ERSA, the trade body established to lie on behalf of the welfare to work industry, has said that benefit sanctions are ‘political’ and called for a better evidence base for the current regime.
Kirsty McHugh made the comments in an interview with Inside Housing magazine discussing the number of homelessness charities and Housing Associations that have ended their involvement with Iain Duncan Smith’s Work Programme. According to McHugh:
“(Work Programme) Providers want to be able to make a judgement themselves as to whether there is good reason why a client has or hasn’t broken the conditions of their benefit. But right now the system does not allow this.
“For political reasons, this government likes a “stick”, but I think we need a better evidence base.”
This flies in the face of the DWP’s current position, which is that benefit sanctions ‘help’ people gain work, even…
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