ESA WRAG Sanctions Up 30% In A Year
August 26, 2015
Sanctions to people on disability benefits rose by over 30 per cent last year.
According to figures from the department for work and pensions, 33,357 sanctions were dished out across the 492,180 people in the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) in Britain in 2014-15.
The WRAG group is the part of ESA intended for people who are too sick to work now, but who could potentially work in the future.
This works out as 6.8 sanctions for every 100 claimants and is 31 per cent higher compared to the rate of 5.2 sanctions per 100 claimants in 2013-14. This is a result of the number of people claiming that type of ESA decreasing at the same time as the number of sanctions being awarded increased.
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Reblogged this on perfectlyfadeddelusions and commented:
This causes me a lot of worry, because I always have it in the back of my head they are going sanction me for not hitting what target they have. Being someone with depression and anxiety, I shouldn’t have to feel this extra pressure.
No one should.
Iain Duncan Smith and the Conservatives need to be thrown out of power, because this is only going to get worse and I don’t want more people dying from their fake and nasty sort of kindness.
We need a Revolution!
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The only thing you can be sanctioned on ESA for is non attendance. They cannot sanction you for refusing to apply for or take a job. What are these sanctions for?
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