Excellent article from Mike Sivier @ Vox Political on line
TRIGGER ALERT: Please note this article contains reference to mental health issues.
Yet again, the Department of Work and Pensions has been revealed as an organ of monstrous bureaucratic cruelty this week, with a report from the charity Mind showing that the DWP is three times more likely to sanction someone with mental health problems than to help them find work.
The report states that 250,000 people with mental health issues are receiving Employment and Support Allowance, and of these, 19,259 were sanctioned last year while only 6,340 were helped into work in the same time frame.
Read the original article by clicking on the link below;
Advertisements
My Dear, I am an example. A reader who is both on DLA for Mental Health Reasons and has had his ESA sanctioned leading to cessation of housing benefit and Council Tax benefits….over two months ago now. I am well in the poo and i don’t mean Winnie. I have in turn have placed my wieght upon support services driving up the figures for usage and therefore need. When my internet connection goes down…whoops.
LikeLiked by 2 people
DWP are supposed to have sent out guidance to all Councils that HB and Council Tax should not be stopped if any benefit is sanctioned. Try getting in touch with Fightback in Facebook or online, they have help lines and support for appeals against sanctions, too, with really high success rates. I do worry deeply on a personal level, not some abstract, when I hear of such cruelty, and I hope you can get some support too, and get these unlawful actions against you reversed.
LikeLiked by 2 people
I feel for you Bioman, I really do. I have just received an e mail from Labour asking if I would like to enter a question for PMQs. I am going to ask WHY the DWP HAS STILL NOT implemented ANY of the 24 recommendations in the Oakley report, one of which was to make fast track hardship loans available from day 1 of a benefit sanction
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions-independent-review
LikeLiked by 1 person
I will look at the above thanks, LWWOL…such a thing a the loan would have had a dramatic effect upon MY personal situation…please do ask.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I will sweetheart X
LikeLike
Thank you for the info. It all gets treated as run of the mill by all concerned but unaffected…I of course am the one living on beans and toast. What a mess. And my credit score is gone of course. Without warning as they come, one’s finances take a pounding.
LikeLiked by 3 people