Conservatives promised to protect the ‘most vulnerable’. How’s that going?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by fanofootball

Thanks to NLAT for the images and the comment.

“Take emergency hardship payments for the people having their benefits sanctioned – a system that, as was reported last week, is now removing the benefits of one in six jobseekers each year and is under scrutiny from the UK statistics watchdog. I warned in March about the irony of the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) “protection” strategy: how the people who most need help after being sanctioned are locked out of the hardship fund because the application process is too difficult for them to understand.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/10/conservatives-most-vulnerable-iain-duncan-smith-george-osborne-reforms