Need help with a Universal Credit Sanction?

It is my intention to prepare advice and guidance as well as templates. Posting this message will ensure I do something about it in the next few weeks. I am in full flow with 2 complex court cases.

I am sure members including myself will assist with urgent requests.

Thanks Non-Def.

I was wondering what the changes are between the old JSA sanctions & the Univ Credit sanction schemes???

Universal Credit sanctions

Details of the UC sanction regime are given in the DWP’s Sanctions Statistics methodology document (DWP 2018a) and by OBR (2018, Chapter 3). The UC regime has similar lengths of sanction to those of the previous benefits for the various ‘failures’, but there are some critical differences. Sanctions are lengthened by being made consecutive, not concurrent. Hardship payments become repayable. Given that repayments are made at the rate of 40% of benefit – the same as the amount by which a hardship payment is lower than the benefit – this means that for claimants receiving hardship payments, UC sanctions are in effect 2½ times as long as their nominal length.5 All sanctioned UC claimants must also demonstrate ‘compliance’ for 7 days before applying for hardship payments, and must reapply for each 4-week period. The 80% hardship rate for ‘vulnerable’ claimants is abolished. There is a new ‘lowest’ category of sanction which applies to claimants who would previously have been subject to the milder IS sanction regime. But now lone parents with a child aged between 2 and 5 lose their whole standard allowance, and those with a child aged 1 lose 40% of it, whereas previously both groups would have lost 20%. Under UC, the sanction is applied to the amount of the Standard Allowance6 which is calculated to be due. In the case of in-work UC sanctions, the calculated amount may be less than the full amount, in which case the sanction may also be less.

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