St Vincents Housing Association @svha has started a campaign to raise awareness of unfair sanctions - @RealLifeReform St Vincents Housing Association has seen an increase in the number of its residents having sanctions imposed on their benefit claims. The reasons for the sanctions include trivial issues such as being a few minutes late for a job centre appointment where the claimant has been subject to the vagaries of public transport. St Vincents points out the so-called claimant commitment forces those on jobseekers allowance to treat looking for work as a full-time job. The social landlord correctly argues that what it does not do is consider an individual’s circumstances such as #disabilities or #dependents. In some cases claimants have had their benefits stopped for up to six weeks or even much longer - sometimes 3 months for an extremely minor infraction and as a result the whole family hasnt received a penny. As a result, the 3,000-home provider says it is seeing more and more of its tenants relying on #FoodBanks and accepting #loans from disreputable lenders. Charlie Norman, from St Vincents, said: “We have seen many of our tenants unfairly hit by sanctions and we would like to see this very unfair policy ramped up the agenda and discussed at the highest level. I want to get as many people on board with this, and our friends at @RealLifeReform are also working hard to raise the profile of this problem. The more people we get on board, the more we can lobby the decision makers.” Blog da Raquel Rolnik EAPN - European Anti Poverty Network UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:25:59 +0000
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