Sir Richard Tilt, chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) has spoken regarding sanctions-based conditionality as the main tool for getting people back into the labour market:
We have seen little convincing evidence that sanctions ‘work’ in this way, and we very much hope that the development of ‘personalised’ support services … will offer an approach to compliance that offers customers empowerment and responsibility, backed by real choices and options, as they move towards the labour market.
So let’s reiterate the obvious, sanctions don’t work!
November 13, 2009 at 4:57 pm |
Well it is common sense.
Someone “employed” has income.
Someone “unemployed” doesn’t have any income apart from benefits.
A “sanction” takes away the small income of benefits leaving the “unemployed” person with nothing.
So how does that secure people a job? If it did there would simply be no welfare system. No jobseekers allowance.