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Abolish all benefit sanctions

Submitted on Wednesday 9th December 2015

Rejected on Thursday 10th December 2015

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Abolish all benefit sanctions

Petition Details

Claimants should not lose their benefits unless they have been convicted of fraud. These sanctions are currently being applied for unfair or trivial reasons. Sanctions leave people unable to buy food and heat their homes,this is demonstrated by the increased use of foodbanks

Additional Information

Austerity,Sanctions and the rise of food banks in the UK : BMJ 2015;350:h1775


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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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