Tories deliberately misled public, understating benefit sanctions figures – Greens

‘The government has deliberately misled the public on the number of welfare claimants who have been stripped of their benefits over the past year, the Green Party claims.

Green Party spokesman Jonathan Bartley called on the government to come clean on the issue, after it emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) handed out 605,592 sanctions to benefits claimants in 2014.

The Greens accused the government of attempting to whitewash the effects of its benefit sanctions scheme by publishing a monthly ratio that obscures the policy’s real impact on the ground.’

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