Wasting police time – a new role for the Jobcentre ?
> The following was forwarded by email and is reproduced with permission.
Hi,I enjoy reading your blog, I felt i had to write to someone to express my astonishment at the actions of Killingworth (North Tyneside) job centre.
My son has just been sanctioned by them. He asked for a hardship form to get some kind of help.
I know he shouldn’t have done but in filling it in he said he might have to resort to shoplifting to survive !
Very much to my surprise at about 6.30pm tonight was a loud knock on the the door my partner answered to be confronted by 2 policemen.They asked for my son by name, they asked if he had written those things on the from.
He said he had because he was very annoyed with being sanctioned, they asked if he was intending to go shoplifting, he said no, they both…
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I am very fortunate not to be in a position where my income could be withdrawn by a third party, however many years ago I did claim benefits but there was no sanctions in place that I was aware of. I have wondered how I would r
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React if I found myself in the position of having benefits sanctioned and being left without food, electricity, shelter etc. I would like to think that having worked for forty years paying into a system that was now depriving me of the basic necessities of life that I would be brave enough to break the law severely enough for me to be arrested and receive food, shelter etc. If everyone was brave enough.
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