Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review sanctions that apply following a first missed appointment.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The Department keeps the operation of conditionality and sanctions policies and processes under regular review to ensure they remain clear, fair and effective.
Details on the Department’s assessment and position on a number of benefit sanctions related matters, including the potential use of warnings for first failures, can be found in our recent response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on Recommendation 4 of its report Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres (HC 653) (https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/50172/documents/270724/default/)
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