Disabled rights campaigners urge government to extend pause on benefit sanctions
Removing people’s benefits during the pandemic will have devastating effects on families and children, Disabled People Against Cuts warn
THE government must extend the suspension of benefits sanctions beyond today to ensure claimants are not thrown into debt, disabled rights campaigners across Britain have urged.
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) has written to MPs, calling on them to put pressure on the government against restoring “the hostile environment for claimants.”
The three-month pause on conditionality and sanctions was brought in by the government at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.
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