Month: January 2016

1.5mn benefit claimants ‘could face destitution’

https://www.rt.com/uk/329080-benefits-welfare-cuts-destitution/ 1.5mn benefit claimants ‘could face destitution’ – report Close to 1.5 million benefit claimants could face destitution after disappearing from the welfare system, a former Labour minister has warned. Benefit sanctions are being imposed on a “scale unknown since the Second World War” and the wellbeing and status of at a least 33 percent … Continue reading 1.5mn benefit claimants ‘could face destitution’