STOP Benefit Sanctions!
Members of UNITE, PCS and the Merseyside Pensioners Association turned out last week to protest outside the ‘Job Centre’ in Williamson Square, Liverpool. Benefit sanctions are causing misery and anxiety for familes and individuals across the country. Instead of encouraging people back to work they are leaving vulnerable people without any money to live on – sending many to food banks and pushing them further into debt. Sanctions represent the violence of Austerity policies which are driving people to live on the streets or even commit suicide.
A member of the Merseyside Pensioners Association protesting outside the Job Centre. Liverpool 2017.
Members of the Merseyside Pensioners Association protesting outside the Job Centre. Liverpool 2017.
Tony Mulhearn, Merseyside Pensioners Association. Liverpool 2017.
Sheila Coleman, UNITE Community branch. Liverpool 2017.
A member of the Merseyside Pensioners Association protesting outside the Job Centre. Liverpool 2017.
Tony Mulhearn, Merseyside Pensioners Association. Liverpool 2017.
Members of the Merseyside Pensioners Association protesting outside the Job Centre. Liverpool 2017.
Campaigner Ruth Knox. Liverpool 2017.
Jan, a member of the Merseyside Pensioners Association protesting outside the Job Centre. Liverpool 2017.
Marie Harrison, secretary of the of the Merseyside Pensioners Association protesting outside the Job Centre. Liverpool 2017.
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There are VERY effective legal remedies against benefit sanctions which far too few claimants/victims use to their advantage and to the detriment of the DWP. I have been wrongly sanctioned FOUR times, and have had the decision reversed on each occasion including grovelling apologies and compensation payment. All claimants MUST use these remedies at every opportunity, because in addition to recovering benefits we are entitled to, they clog up the DWP system processes and demoralise the ars****es they employ to abuse us. Legal and administrative action against them is surprisingly easy (and cheap) to initiate, has a very high rate of success, and causes them all kinds of serious problems. Believe me comrades, THEY DON’T LIKE IT UP ‘EM!