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/