Critics say scheme under which working people claiming universal credit can be fined for failing to do enough to find more work is ‘political dynamite’Fines imposed on full-time workers who claim universal credit amount to “punishing the working poor”,experts have suggested, as it emerged that one woman was docked £220 for lost a jobcentre appointment because she took a family holiday.
The fines, or share of a slight-known in-work conditionality programme introduced by the then work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith,have been called political dynamite” by academics, who warn that it may undermine unemployed people taking low-paid jobs.
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Source: theguardian.com