Friday, 28 October 2016

Be a glitch in our benefits system, and the punishment is to starve

Faceless bureaucrats are tipping claimants into hunger.

so says Julia Rampen in New Statement (The Staggers)

So it’s official. If anyone still doubted that benefit sanctions are linked to food bank usage, a study by the University of Oxford and the Trussell Trust has found “a strong, dynamic relationship exists” between the number of sanctions in local authorities, and the number of adults receiving emergency food parcels.

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