Benefit sanctions regime should be suspended during cost of living crisis, ministers told

Ministers should immediately suspend the benefit sanctions system until inflation is brought under control, a think-tank has demanded.

Research by the IPPR think-tank claims that one in 12 searching for work have had their payments docked in the midst of the cost-of-living crisis.

Using the most recent Government data from November 2022, some 100,000 people have had their benefits cut or cancelled, the organisation claimed.