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Benefit sanctions: the NAO report

December 2, 2016     Leave a Comment

Peter Dwyer and Janis Bright consider this week’s report

This week the National Audit Office published its report on benefit sanctions.  The NAO found that an increasingly harsh sanctions regime, extended in scope and severity, has been running for quite some time with only limited evidence on the outcomes and effectiveness of benefit sanctions leading to increased participation in paid work.

The NAO points out that government has a duty to evaluate its own rules, and to ‘balance their effectiveness in encouraging employment against the impacts on claimants and any wider costs for public spending’. Read More

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