Dwp Sanctions Are They Lawfull?

[smartypants10101]

if the law says I am entitled so much money per week in benefits , And its the law remember that I get that amount , how can the DWP take it off me in sanctioned benefits for 4 weeks, because I missed an appointment with there office, ? is this not contradicting what the law states in the first place..., and also if my human right is the right to live, and I get no money for 4 weeks of been sanctioned should I starve to death as even glass of water is theft because I have not paid the bill and am drinking water which is not paid for.SO really again is this against my human rights

[Cloverjo]

I don't know the law, smarty, but I think it's despicable that the DWP does things like this.

[ummmm]

Yes...of course they are. You would have signed to agree to the T&C.

What section of the law are you talking about?

[jackthehat]

The amount of your benefit is calculated 'by law'. The payment of it is dependent upon your fufilling your side of the contract you enter into when you claim.

You missed an appointment which you were required to attend......why was that? Did you let them know beforehand? Have you explained yourself since?

[jomifl]

Did you tell them before you missed the appointment?

[smartypants10101]

how about the human rights thing the right to live with out water I can live 3-4 days max food maybe longer second listing for dwp sanctions do they work

[Mamyalynne]

Well, you haven't much to complain about really - according to your other post you are dining very well and have your ciggies.


Did you keep your side of the contract with DWP?

[ummmm]

I suppose you won't miss another appointment.

[smartypants10101]

and I may do or may not do if the last four weeks are anything to go by then I may go for the 13 weeks sanction , I could send my report to the mp it has that many flours in it I am running circles round the dwp and keeping in the law, so they don't work which was my original point

[hc4361]

Who are you scrounging the fags off?

[jomifl]

not the taxpayer it seems

[ToraToraTora]

The whole system is the law not just the bits you like. You could always try keeping the asppointments with those that dish out free money to you, or, horror of horrors, try some sort of employment.

[ToraToraTora]

There are many public drinking fountains and soup kitchens you won't starve.

[ToraToraTora]

"I am running circles round the dwp " - err doesn't look like it to me!

[lcg]

no it isn't. stop missing appointments and do as they say. you may try appealing, but everybody else turns up. why shouldn't you?

[youngmafbog]

You can lookat people TTT and sum up what is wrong with society.

[Baldric]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Jobs-and-Education/Question1372212.html

Monk Fish and Rump Steak eh!

[wolf63]

It would like not turning up at work and still expecting to be paid.

You are never going to win with DWP - they are not idiots. You may be one though.

[EDDIE51]

Benefit payments are only made on condition you comply with the requirements to get them. One of those is that you attend and meetings , assessments , interviews that they ask you to go for.
The law DOES NOT say you are entitled to just get money handed to you for ever without you doing anything in return.
The benefit system has got much tighter in recent months and it will get a lot tighter still. You can no longer get away with not complying with the conditions. I recently found myself with no money as my pension credit payment was stopped. In the end it turned out that it was because my private pension had changed by just 14p a week . But I still found myself with no money for a week and had to apply to a food bank.
If there is a food bank near you , you can get a letter of introduction from the CAB. You need to provide proof that your benefit has been stopped.
TTT by the way I have not seen a public drinking fountain for over 30 years!

[Mamyalynne]

Eddie,I suggest you look at the link provided by Baldric above - smartypants reckons they have it all sorted.

[nailit]

soup kitchens and public drinking fountains? Us unemployed have never had it so good.