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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Chaminda Jayanetti

Major study on how benefit sanctions hit health is SCRAPPED after DWP pulls out

A major study on how benefit sanctions hit poor Brits’ health has been scrapped after Tory ministers quietly pulled out.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has decided "not to proceed” with a long-planned project by the University of Glasgow.

The research would have looked at links between benefits sanctions and family breakdown, depression and even suicide.

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