MPs: Protect Housing Allowance From Benefit Sanctions

The government must stop deducting money from Universal Credit claimants’ allowances if they have already been sanctioned, a group of MPs have said. The Work and Pensions Select Committee has recommended that deductions from a claimant’s allowance for things such as rent arrears be postponed if a person has already been sanctioned. The MPs argue that the combination of deductions and sanctions can have a knock-on impact on a claimant’s housing and child benefit allowance which is supposed to be protected under the current regime. Read more on Inside Housing.

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