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UIN 191820

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

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29 June 2023

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4 July 2023 · Answer

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were subject to sanctions in the last three months for which data is available by constituency; and how much was the (a) total and (b) average sum of benefit income lost by claim

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  1. 29 June 2023

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were subject to sanctions in the last three months for which data is available by constituency; and how much was the (a) total and (b) average sum of benefit income lost by claim

    Source: Commons

  2. 4 July 2023

    Answer

    Sanctions are only ever applied when a claimant fails to meet their agreed conditionality requirements without good reason. Statistics are published regularly showing the number of Universal Credit full service claimants with a payment that has been reduc...

    Source: Written answer

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