Scrap benefits sanctions or risk mental health crisis, doctors warn

‘The doctors’ letter comes just 10 days before Philip Hammond’s spring budget, with the Government still struggling to bring the deficit under control and under intense pressure to spend money giving companies more business rates relief.
It reads: “We, the UK’s leading bodies representing psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors, call on the Government to immediately suspend the benefits sanctions system.
“It fails to get people back to work and damages their mental health.”’
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