The Department of Work and Pension's (DWP) new law to force more benefit sanctions has been branded as "unjustified" by a key committee.
The crackdown was passed on February 8 as part of the "Way to Work" target to help 500,000 Universal Credit claimants into work by June. Under the new law, jobseekers could face sanctions if they refuse to take a job four weeks after starting their claim.
This is down from three months and was passed as an emergency law so there was not a vote by MPs - and it did not have to be approved by the Social Security Advisory Committee - as Mirror Online reports.
