A recent review of sanctions on the #unemployed to 'encourage' them into #work (which as you will recall #JeremyHunt emphasised in his budget, concludes that:
'While sanctions tend to increase exits to employment in the short term, there is evidence of adverse impacts on job quality, job stability, earnings and income & of increased exits to non-employment or inactivity'.
For the Sado-Tories this won't matter, as punishing the poor *is* the aim
h/t Sarah O'Connor (FT)
eprints.gla.ac.uk/261161/
The impacts of benefit sanctions: a scoping review of the quantitative research evidence
In recent decades, the use of conditionality backed by benefit sanctions for those claiming unemployment and related benefits has become widespread in the social security systems of high-income countries.Dibben, Chris
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