DWP To Continue Sanctioning ESA Claimants Despite MPs’ Recommendation
With many thanks to Benefits And Work.
The government is still refusing to change the way sanctions are imposed on sick and disabled claimants or examine the impact of sanctions on their wellbeing, according to the commons work and pensions committee. The committee chair accused the DWP of pushing disabled people into ”grinding poverty and hardship”.
Last October, the committee made a number of recommendations to the government about changes to the sanctions regime and warned that:
“We have heard stories of terrible and unnecessary hardship from people who’ve been sanctioned. They were left bewildered and driven to despair at becoming, often with their children, the victims of a sanctions regime that is at times so counter-productive it just seems pointlessly cruel”.
In a response published today, however, the government have rejected the recommendation by the committee that claimants already found to have limited capability for work should be exempt from sanctions.
It has also rejected the recommendation that claimants who are waiting for a Work Capability Assessment should be exempt from sanctions if they had a “Fit Note” from a doctor saying they were unable to work.
The most that the government is prepared to consider, is to “explore the possibility of a Proof of Concept (PoC) that conditionality would not be imposed on claimants before their WCA and those assessed as having Limited Capability for Work”.
But even if this was introduced, the final decision would still be in the hands of work coaches as to whether to apply the policy to each claimant they dealt with. In other words, work coaches would still be free to recommend sanctions for any claimant and the DWP would still be willing to impose them.
As far as evaluations are concerned, the government is only prepared to look at how effective universal credit sanctions are at helping people into work. No research will be carried out on how sanctions affect the health of disabled claimants or the degree to which they push them into poverty.
Committee chair Frank Field said:
“Our report laid bare the inhumanity of the Government’s sanctions regime, which it has pursued for years without ever stopping to check whether it works or what it is doing to the people it is meant to “support”.
In response, the Government has failed utterly to grasp the seriousness of the matter. It talks about reviews and “proof of concept”: it might want to take a look at the concept of not pushing disabled people and single parents—not to mention their children—into grinding poverty and hardship.”
You can read more on the parliament website.
How about stopping the bonuses and rewards that DWP staff get for imposing sanctions, and giving staff unrealistic targets to meet, without the incentive that drives the rewards based system i am sure some would be less likely to inflict cruelty on claimants. (granted not all as there are those psychopathic control freaks on a permanent power kick employed by the DWP) There have been plenty of whistleblowers that tell how there own jobs are under threat if they don’t fulfil the sanction quotas they are issued with, some are just trying to safeguard their own incomes and haven’t got the balls to step outside of the “only doing my job” mentality. DWP staff either have to grow a pair and stand up for themselves with a mass “no we are not doing this because its inhumane”, and boycott the system they are forced to apply, or the system needs to be got rid of once and for all. The whole structure of the DWP is outdated, not fit for purpose and inflicts more harm than it does good, it needs to go
“Just following orders” is not a valid defence.
All DWP Murdering, Torturing, Abusing, Hate Criminal Fraudsters should be in prison.
Serious Crime Act 2007 – Encouraging or Assisting Crime –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/part/2
Accessories and Abettors Act 1861 –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/94/crossheading/as-to-abettors-in-misdemeanors
Along with the vermin protecting them, like the BSing ‘crocodile tears’ MP’s and FAKE ‘Advice’ BS from course of justice perverts like Benefits And Work.
Abuse of Vulnerable Adults –
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/194272/No_secrets__guidance_on_developing_and_implementing_multi-agency_policies_and_procedures_to_protect_vulnerable_adults_from_abuse.pdf
Care Act 2014 – Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/section/42/enacted
Fraud Act 2006 –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/contents
Misconduct in Public Office –
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/misconduct_in_public_office/
Perverting The Course of Justice –
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/public_justice_offences_incorporating_the_charging_standard/
Criminal Justice Act 1988 – Torture
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/33/part/XI/crossheading/torture
UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CAT.aspx
“Article 2 –
3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.”
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Here are The ‘Public Duties’ of *all* Members of Parliament –
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmcode/1885/188502.htm
“5. Members have a duty to ***uphold the law***, including the general law against discrimination.”
“10. Members shall base their conduct on a consideration of the public interest, avoid conflict between personal interest and the public interest and resolve any conflict between the two, at once, and in favour of the public interest.”
Misconduct in Public Office –
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/misconduct_in_public_office/
(Up to life in prison for not doing their jobs)
So where are those Do Nothing criminal MP scumbags POLICE???
Membership – Work and Pensions Committee –
Member Party
Frank Field (Chair) Independent
Heidi Allen Conservative
Jack Brereton Conservative
Alex Burghart Conservative
Neil Coyle Labour
Rosie Duffield Labour
Ruth George Labour
Steve McCabe Labour
Nigel Mills Conservative
Chris Stephens Scottish National Party
Derek Thomas Conservative
Do Nothing Criminal Nonce –

It’s Bent Cops –
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