JSA

How unemployment sanctions are driving down the claimant count

Hundreds of thousands of sanction decisions last year have resulted in unemployed people being knocked off the claimant count. There were almost 320,000 decisions to stop a person’s Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) benefit for “not actively seeking employment” in 2013. And in the first six months of 2014 a further 125,000 sanctions have been applied, according to the latest […]

Benefit sanctions data to be released for first time on DWP stats site

The Department for Work and Pensions statistics site Stat-Xplore will publish data on sanctions  for the first time next month The data,  for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) sanction decisions, will be released on the site on Wednesday 19 February, according to an email sent to users of the service. The new data […]

Benefit sanctions data to be released for first time on DWP stats site

The Department for Work and Pensions statistics site Stat-Xplore will publish data on sanctions  for the first time next month The data,  for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) sanction decisions, will be released on the site on Wednesday 19 February, according to an email sent to users of the service. The new data […]

Benefit sanctions data to be released for first time on DWP stats site

The Department for Work and Pensions statistics site Stat-Xplore will publish data on sanctions  for the first time next month The data,  for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) sanction decisions, will be released on the site on Wednesday 19 February, according to an email sent to users of the service. The new data […]