Frank Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that benefit claimants who are sanctioned receive a written notification of the sanction before their benefit payment is withdrawn.
Priti Patel
We recently reintroduced automated sanction notifications (from Monday 23rd November 2015) to ensure that all claimants who are sanctioned receive a written notification of the sanction.