Submitted on Sunday 26th February 2017
Published on Tuesday 7th March 2017
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Signatures: 3,254
End Benefit Sanctions and the Work Capability Assessment.
Sanctions and Work Capability Assessments are unfair, disproportionate and cruel. They are leading to the deaths of our citizens, causing suicides, mental health issues and increasing the involvement of the police, hospitals and social services. WCAs regularly overrule medical professionals advice.
The PCS union have presented evidence to MPs that show that sanction rates are monitored at the level of the adviser, the team, the office and the district, and that some individual managers take action with their staff if sanction rates are “too low”.
The sanctions regime now also affects an increasing number of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants – who are too ill or disabled to work currently, but whom the DWP consider will be capable of work at some time in the future.
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