Tough new rules put in place by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for Universal Credit claimants have been slammed by a key committee.
A new law was passed in February — without any scrutiny or a vote — that reduced the length of time that claimants were allowed to seek a relevant job before being forced to take a position outside of their "preferred sector" from three months to four week.
Under the new rules, Universal Credit claimants can now be hit with sanctions if they choose not to take a job offered to them four weeks after their initial application.
