UK statistics watchdog call for "objective, partial" figures
A statistics watchdog in UK has called on the government to ensure its figures on job seekers sanctions are “objective and impartial.”
UK Statistics Authority’s call comes after a series of complaints by leading experts.
UKSA’s Chief, Sir Andrew Dilnot urged the government to give the public a “clearer understanding of how it is imposing sanctions on job seekers.”
According to The Guardian, sanctions are used by civil servants to penalize job seekers when they are alleged to have broken benefit rules. Over the last decade those punishments have become increasingly severe. As of October 2012, job seekers can be stripped of their allowance for up to three years.
The newspaper had written three days ago that the government has significantly understated the impact of its benefit sanctions regime with research showing one in six of all job seekers have their payments stopped each year.
This contradicts officials’ claims about the number of job seekers being affected by its policies in this field. They had said earlier that only a small minority of job seekers were affected.
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