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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

DWP denies £326 cost of living payment to Universal Credit claimants who got a sanction

Some Brits on Universal Credit have been denied a vital cost of living payment - because they were sanctioned by the Jobcentre.

Boris Johnson said the £326 lump sum in July would show more than 8million Brits “we are on their side”.

But guidance to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff, seen by the Mirror, told them to refuse the payment to certain claimants if their benefits were stopped.

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