1.5 million benefit claimants ‘could face destitution’ – report

‘Close to 1.5 million benefit claimants could face destitution after disappearing from the welfare system, a former Labour minister has warned.

Benefit sanctions are being imposed on a “scale unknown since the Second World War” and the wellbeing and status of at a least 33 percent of those who have been targeted is “anybody’s guess,” said Work and Pensions Committee chairman Frank Field, an expert on the welfare state who has conducted inquiries for Tory-Lib Dem and Labour administrations.

Field warned the government is unaware of how many claimants have been left impoverished because it is failing to properly monitor why they have disappeared from the welfare system.’

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