Il rapporto rileva che le sanzioni universali sul credito sono più “severe” e “dannose” delle sanzioni penali
Universal credit sanctions more ‘severe’ and ‘damaging’ than criminal fines, report finds
di lighthouse77
Il rapporto rileva che le sanzioni universali sul credito sono più “severe” e “dannose” delle sanzioni penali
Universal credit sanctions more ‘severe’ and ‘damaging’ than criminal fines, report finds
di lighthouse77
7 commenti
Well, yeah, of course they are.
If you can’t afford a fine, you can make arrangements to pay in installments, if your benefits get sanctioned, that’s some or all of your income gone overnight.
And the sociopaths working there are very aware of this.
Benefits are the only area of the country where “hostile environment” actually exists in practical terms.
Job centres are the most depressing, demoralising places in the country. Its just an exercise in box ticking and seems primarily aimed at stopping people screwing the system with an undeclared job.
IMO scrap the entire system, those who don’t want to work will always find an excuse to stay on the dole, and those that do eventually get a job. Just give people the money without the interrogation and turn job centres back into places where people could go to actually find a job.
From reading the article…yes that totally makes sense. Why would it be lower?
It’s a flawed analysis to begin with since they’re not comparing like-for-like, but I assume the bad science is intended since it helps push their agenda.
“While universal credit claimants lose 100% of their benefit” which isn’t even true. It can only be the standard allowance which isn’t the majority of the claim for most people. The average monthly payment is 1k and standard allowance for someone over 25 is 400. For example a single unemployed able bodied parent in London with 2 kids would get around 2k a month, a sanction is 20% their award..
They already do hardship payments that work as loans when you’re sanctioned that you can apply for.
The only way to make people engage who refuse is financial. The most common sanction reason is around is refusing to look for work or quitting your job. What do you expect the job centre to do if someone just refuses to look for a job? At that point just say there’s no requirement to look for work if you can’t be sanctioned for it. How will they make anyone do anything if you can get all the money regardless? Come to their house and arrest them?
Sorry but no. I have been on universal credit between jobs and you literally to have be the most incompetent creature going to actually get money taken.
I didn’t turn up to any of the meetings because I showed that I was looking for a job and found one within a few months.
They literally only ask for a basic amount of effort , if you cannot even manage the absolute basic then I don’t see what hope there is for you